Bug#804624: please improve support for installing foreign packages to chroots and add DPKG_ROOT

2016-04-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 08:48:45 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:29:15AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > b) Packages that do not "set -u" (nounset), can now prepend $DPKG_ROOT > > >to any file they operate on. With old versions $DPKG_ROOT will be > > >unset

Bug#804624: please improve support for installing foreign packages to chroots and add DPKG_ROOT

2016-04-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Guillem, On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:29:15AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I don't quite like the name, as remote to me implies on some other > machine. Perhaps foreign, host or extern(al), although some of these > are a bit overloaded terms already. Given that I didn't get any further

Bug#804624: please improve support for installing foreign packages to chroots and add DPKG_ROOT

2016-03-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Guillem, Thanks for taking the time to process this crazy idea! On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:29:15AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > b) Packages that do not "set -u" (nounset), can now prepend $DPKG_ROOT > >to any file they operate on. With old versions $DPKG_ROOT will be > >unset and

Bug#804624: please improve support for installing foreign packages to chroots and add DPKG_ROOT

2016-03-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 00:01:48 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.3 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: helm...@debian.org > Usertags: rebootstrap > Thank you very much for discussing the idea of DPKG_ROOT and recording > some results at

Bug#804624: please improve support for installing foreign packages to chroots and add DPKG_ROOT

2015-11-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Hi Guillem, Thank you very much for discussing the idea of DPKG_ROOT and recording some results at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap already. By now, I am convinced