On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can > find a way to have the stable distribution in the main tree and the unstable > in local. There seem to be many people using stable, but wishing to > get also individual packets from unstable, not for testing purposes. > This might be a real challenge for the debian packaging system! not really, it is quite common for debian developers to have either a stable or unstable system in a chroot, for example developers who have moved to woody create a potato install in /usr/local/potato. when they need to compile a package for potato (bug fix or security) they just mount /usr/local/potato/proc and chroot in. you can even have init spawn a chrooted getty so you can `login' to potato. (actually one of the newer Debian systems allows developers to ssh in to either a potato or a woody system running on the same box. (sharing only the same running kernel)) all you really have to do is untar base2_2.tgz, chroot in and start out just like a fresh installed debian system. apt-get and all work just fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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