Re: [RFC] No longer create full set of static devices during install

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:52:18PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > One thing that is not completely nice is that bootstrap-base now
> > installs a file in /usr/lib/debootstrap/. I thought about putting it
> > elsewhere, but think the current location is defensible as well with
> > the rationale that it provides a missing component of debootstrap.
>
> It's a minor layering violation, but I think it's OK here. Perhaps add a
> comment to debootstrap that the pkgdetails API needs to be kept in sync
> with base-installer, so that we don't forget in future.

Comment added.

> > > except I'd do it by adding:
> > > elif type udpkg >/dev/null 2>&1 && udpkg --print-architecture
> > >
> > > >/dev/null 2>&1; then ARCH=`udpkg --print-architecture`
> > >
> > > ... to debootstrap rather than passing the architecture in from
> > > base-installer.
> >
> > Hmmm. Why?
>
> Regularity: debootstrap already does the same thing with dpkg.

OK. Done.

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