On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Good News: > [...] > > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > | unpacked | > | The package is unpacked, but not configured. | > +--------------------------------------------------------+
The bad news is that dpkg --unpack does also try to execute the preinst, when it does exist. My opinion about bootstrapping is this: -> We should create a "base system" the Debian way. The Debian base system (base2_0.tgz) is created by the boot-floppies package, by unpacking all the base packages into an empty directory using dpkg's --root option (natively). However, we will be unable to do it untill we have all the base packages ported. We still need Debian packages for perl, for example. -- "ede52a866244c0ad4b8734b37d30aaf1" (a truly random sig)
