On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > That's a shame, because it'll leave a lot of people that can't use network > or CDROM to install from out in the cold. i agree > Sure, but the 'install base system from a single tarball, have yourself a > functional system' was always a big selling point IMHO. Leaving out this > feature makes Debian a tad more like the other distros: rather mediocre. > > The 'need to rebuild' thing was more of a makefile bug than anything else > (split boot-floppies in multiple packages, one for base, one for the > ramdisks, yadda yadda) and be done with a debian/rules base ... i have an idea on how debootstrap could be modified to download the base debs and tar them up, it would be very fast and easy and could be automated after dinstall runs. since all it does is download packages rather then build a root filesystem it could do all archetecture's on one machine. install the base system would then instead of extracting a root filesystem tarball would extract the base tarball in /target/var/cache/apt/archives and debootstrap would continue as if the download just finished. but its not going to happen, not until someone forks debootstrap. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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