On 12/12/2018 12:47 PM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote: ...My interest has been rekindled. I wish to understand debootstrap. To that end I do a minimalist bootable Debian installation.have you looked at the source code ?
No.
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/tree/master it is written in sh. which isn't too obscure a language...
Having assumed [erroneously] that it was written in a compiled language, I hadn't looked for source.
As to obscurity/opaqueness of sh. *It ain't* ;/Especially to one introduced [in early 60's] to programming via CORC/CUPL {predecessor *NOT* precursor of Dartmouth BASIC}.
That code is not an answer to my stated question. But it demonstrates that some personal goals are feasible.