On Tue, 17 May 2016, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 13:04:04 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > unfortunately, the problem is reproducible:
> 
> That's always good!

True.

> This was reported on IRC some days ago with a proposed patch which
> I've got locally, pending next push. This was affecting cdebootstrap.
> The problem comes from using --force-all, which enables among others
> the new --force-chrootless, but that fails when not setting --instadir.

Ah, okay.

> Your immediate solution is to stop using --force-all, now and probably

Thanks, that worked indeed. The system is in an unbroken state now.

> in general, as that is beyond dangerous, it enables alll force flags,
> including unsafe-io, all conffile ones for example, or any other future

Mh. I probably only needed --force-depends but, as usual, was too lazy
to look for the correct option when I had muscle memory for this one…

> behavior changing option. I mentioned also on IRC it could be appropriate
> to change the character legend in --force-help for --force-all to one of
> [☢], [☠] or [☣]. :)

[☠] looks particularily fitting.

bye,
//mirabilos
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