Re: core recovery tools, apt-get, and dpkg should be static

[Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com>]

You should be able to use a chroot combined with a hard link to get 
the static binaries into a subspace of the filesystem. I'll admit 
that I am not too familiar with fakeroot. 

I am proposing a fairly large change. Perhaps fakeroot would have
to be adapted to compensate. I don't see this as a counter-argument.

Justin


On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 02:24:20PM -0700, Carl R. Witty wrote:
> Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> writes:
> 
> > HOW TO MAKE DEBIAN LESS FRAGILE:
> >  
> > All the core system tools, including the package manager (apt_get 
> > and dpkg) should be available as static binaries rather than dynamic
> > executables. 
> ...
> > I previously raised this issue in the devel list, and met with various
> > responses. Here are refutations of many of the common counter-arguments:
> 
> If the standard system binaries are statically linked, then you can't
> use fakeroot to build packages any more.
> 
> Carl Witty
> cwitty@newtonlabs.com