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

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:

>> debootstrap is modified to include in the udeb only the minimal tarball
>> of devices currently also included in the regular debootstrap binary
>> package. We still need the udeb to be "arch any" because of the utility
>> pkgdetails and because /usr/lib/debootstrap/arch needs to be included.
>
> We could probably make the debootstrap udeb "arch all" by moving pkgdetails
> to base-installer and passing '--arch $(udpkg --print-architecture)', but
> I'm not sure that's worth it.

I support this idea since this would avoid the recompilation of it on all arches and would make possible to have it using /usr/share for functions and scripts, bug #430615.

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