Bug#152845: debootstrap example
At 5:35 +0200 7/16/02, Matt Kraai wrote: tag 152845 pending thanks On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:50:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I think it should go away too. I suppose a person could want to build their own debs.tar if the archive version had been left to get out of date, and they needed to install on a non-networked machine. Rather a corner case. Yeah! Someone agrees with me, so I've removed it. Okay. Kind Regards, the submitter of the bug, Geert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#152845: debootstrap example
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote: If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the tarball? Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball. It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it. Please document it in the manual. Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement. I'm not sure that this information is useful for anyone, which is why I'm hesitant to have it in the manual. Keeping useless information makes it harder to find the useful information. Thus, I'd like to hear a reason why the user would want to rebuild the tarball before I commit to keeping it documented herein. Matt msg20862/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#152845: debootstrap example
At 17:56 +0200 7/15/02, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote: If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the tarball? Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball. It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it. Please document it in the manual. Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement. I'm not sure that this information is useful for anyone, which is why I'm hesitant to have it in the manual. Keeping useless information makes it harder to find the useful information. I agree on the useless informations hides useful information The Techinacal Info Chapter http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html is IMHO useful information. Thus, I'd like to hear a reason why the user would want to rebuild the tarball before I commit to keeping it documented herein. The user is not here to give a valid reason why to rebuild to tarball, but we can provide him/her with valid information how to do it. Geert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#152845: debootstrap example
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:56:56AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote: If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the tarball? Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball. It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it. Please document it in the manual. Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement. I'm not sure that this information is useful for anyone, which is why I'm hesitant to have it in the manual. Keeping useless information makes it harder to find the useful information. Thus, I'd like to hear a reason why the user would want to rebuild the tarball before I commit to keeping it documented herein. Matt I think it should go away too. I suppose a person could want to build their own debs.tar if the archive version had been left to get out of date, and they needed to install on a non-networked machine. Rather a corner case. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual | | debian-imac (potato): http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | |Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#152845: debootstrap example
Package: install-doc Version: 3.0.24 Severity: minor At http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html is the text debootstrap binary-basedebs SUITE=woody VERSION=3.0 \ MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian; ARCHES=powerpc When invoking that, I get, E: No such script: MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian So I think the example given is wrong. debootstrap --arch=powerpc woody binary-basedebs http://ftp.debian.org/debian is a working example. The debootstrap I use has version 0.1.17 Keep up the good work Geert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#152845: debootstrap example
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:09:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html is the text debootstrap binary-basedebs SUITE=woody VERSION=3.0 \ MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian; ARCHES=powerpc When invoking that, I get, E: No such script: MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian Right, that command is horribly broken. So I think the example given is wrong. debootstrap --arch=powerpc woody binary-basedebs http://ftp.debian.org/debian is a working example. Unfortunately, this is broken as well. debootstrap's debian/rules files contains the following target: binary-basedebs: dh_testdir dh_testroot $(MAKE) pkgdetails ln -s . scripts for a in $(ARCHES); do \ rm -rf chroot-dir; \ mkdir -p chroot-dir; \ DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=. ./debootstrap --arch $$a --download-only $(SUITE) chroot-dir $(MIRROR); \ (cd chroot-dir tar cf ../../basedebs_$(VERSION)_$$a.tar *); \ rm -rf chroot-dir; \ done rm -f scripts Thus, the correct commands are mkdir -p chroot-dir debootstrap --arch powerpc --download-only woody chroot-dir http://ftp.debian.org/debian (cd chroot-dir tar cf ../basedebs_3.0_powerpc.tar *) rm -rf chroot-dir If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the tarball? Matt msg20798/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#152845: debootstrap example
At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:09:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: At http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html is the text debootstrap binary-basedebs SUITE=woody VERSION=3.0 \ MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian; ARCHES=powerpc When invoking that, I get, E: No such script: MIRROR=http://ftp.debian.org/debian Right, that command is horribly broken. So I think the example given is wrong. debootstrap --arch=powerpc woody binary-basedebs http://ftp.debian.org/debian is a working example. Unfortunately, this is broken as well. debootstrap's debian/rules files contains the following target: binary-basedebs: dh_testdir dh_testroot $(MAKE) pkgdetails ln -s . scripts for a in $(ARCHES); do \ rm -rf chroot-dir; \ mkdir -p chroot-dir; \ DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=. ./debootstrap --arch $$a --download-only $(SUITE) chroot-dir $(MIRROR); \ (cd chroot-dir tar cf ../../basedebs_$(VERSION)_$$a.tar *); \ rm -rf chroot-dir; \ done rm -f scripts Thus, the correct commands are mkdir -p chroot-dir debootstrap --arch powerpc --download-only woody chroot-dir http://ftp.debian.org/debian (cd chroot-dir tar cf ../basedebs_3.0_powerpc.tar *) rm -rf chroot-dir If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the tarball? Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball. It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it. Please document it in the manual. Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement. Geert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
