The cdeboostrap package seem to improve, and might soon be a useful replacement for debootstrap in d-i. Because of this, I decided it was time to test it a bit more. Luckily it is already in sid, so t was only one 'apt-get install cdebootstrap' away. :)
Installing worked just fine, both commands worked just fine: debootstrap sarge chroot-sarge-debootstrap http://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian cdebootstrap sarge chroot-sarge-cdebootstrap http://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian Comparing the list of installed packages, I find that cdebootstrap install fewer packages then debootstrap. This is the list of packages installed by cdebootstrap: adduser apt aptitude base-config base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils console-common console-data console-tools coreutils debconf debconf-i18n debianutils diff dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils gcc-3.3-base grep gzip hostname initscripts iputils-ping klogd libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libcap1 libcomerr2 libconsole libdb1-compat libdb3 libgcc1 liblocale-gett libncurses5 libnewt0.51 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpopt0 libsigc++-1.2- libss2 libstdc++5 libtext-charwi libtext-iconv- libtext-wrapi1 libuuid1 lilo login makedev mawk modconf modutils mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin netkit-inetd nvi passwd pciutils perl-base sed setserial slang1a-utf8 sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit tar util-linux whiptail zlib1g The following 55 packages was not installed by cdebootstrap, but installed by debootstrap: apt-utils at bsdmainutils cpio cron dhcp-client ed exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-l fdutils gcc-3.2-base gettext-base groff-base ifupdown info ipchains iptables libdb2 libgcrypt1 libgcrypt7 libgdbm3 libgnutls7 libgpg-error0 libident liblockfile1 liblzo1 libopencdk8 libpcap0.7 libpcre3 libssl0.9.7 libtasn1-0 libtextwrap1 libwrap0 logrotate mailx man-db manpages mbr nano net-tools netbase ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf procps psmisc slang1 syslinux tasksel tcpd telnet wget Of these, I guess at least a few should be installed by cdebootstrap as well. Here are my suggestions. I believe some tools should be included by default to make the installed system nicer, and to make sure problems can be fixed when they occur. apt-utils - to get all debconf questions in one block nano - an editor is needed to fix problems at cron mailx info logrotate manpages, man-db - all debian-systems should have these by default. :) mbr - nice to have if the MBR need replacement I'm not sure if I believe all the network tools should be installed by default or not. If the list of packages installed by cdebootstrap do not match the list of packages installed by debootstrap, we will discover a lot of missing dependencies, which have never been discovered before because the packages were always installed earlier. See #229461 and #230641 for a few such examples discovered already. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
