On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:21:39PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > Stupid question, but why not just use debootstrap to make a tarball, and > then hack the NetBSD installer to use that tarball? Then it's just a > matter of bypassing any damage their installer does to /etc.
I did manage to successfully install a couple of systems with my hacked up things - the main problem was package brokeness once debootstrap had started, rather than anything philosophical. If we can get most of base dealt with to a reasonable quality, then we could do a "proper" install that way. In the long run, porting debian-installer would be more sane... > The BSD's haven't always had their patches merged into upstream. I'm not > sure why. I do know that the problem has existed with all three BSD's in > varying degrees. Things do seem to be better now than they've been in > the past, though. As far as I know, NetBSD weren't pushing their stuff upstream terribly hard. I think that's mostly resolved now (gcc<3.2ish defaulted to a.out on NetBSD-i386 - gcc 3.3 at least defaults to ELF sanity) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
