Control: reopen -1 ! [the BTS doesn't accept mail to archived bugs, apologies for the noise]
On Vi, 07 dec 18, 00:25:46, Johannes Schauer wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:45:27 +0100 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > This package defaults to bootstrapping a Debian system with the > > hackish merged /usr via symlinks, but it provides no way to disable > > that. It would be nice if it had an option to select either mode > > explicitly, say some --[no-]whatever option. > > When I started writing mmdebstrap, one of my major motivations was to provide > a > tool that uses as little magic as possible and instead relies on the > information from the packages themselves for everything. That's also why the > force-script-chrootless mode is so high on my priority list for mmdebstrap. > Thus I think it would be best to not enable/disable merged /usr by using > command line arguments (mmdebstrap tries to use only very few of those) but > instead by selecting which packages to install -- that is assuming that Debian > will not switch to merged /usr by default. This brings me to another point: > right now it seems that building source packages in a merged /usr environment > is able to create buggy packages that don't work on a non-merged system. > Additionally, there seems to be no consensus about the why, how and when of > merged /usr yet. Lastly I only added merged /usr by default because it was the > default of debootstrap at the time when I implemented the code. > > Given all these arguments, I just disabled merged /usr completely in this > commit: > > https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap/commit/97d273aaf6ada19f4966666ba75d907ee64b0a75 > > This seems to be a sensible default for now because it doesn't taint source > packages built within and it's also the current default of Debian testing and > debootstrap. > > Since this bug is about allowing to choose whether one wants a system with or > without merged /usr I will leave this bug report open until a project wide > decision about it has been made. Hello, In the meantime it appears the project wide decision is to go for the /usr merged via symlinks approach and the debootstrap default was changed, so this report is relevant again. Please at least provide the means for mmdebstrap users to create a merged-via-symlinks /usr layout, even if you consider the default should stay as it is. Thank you, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
