On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:49:03PM -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
"debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without
requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading
.deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a
directory which can eventually be chrooted into."
Why do we have this in the first place? I'm not against Debian or the
downloading thereof, but... I really cannot think of any real Fedora use
case for this. Maybe I'm unimaginative today?
Indeed you are. For example it can be used
* to check how debian packages are done. I personally used it to check
how t1lib is packaged on debian.
* imagine you have to prepare a course in computer science and the
computers are under debian and you want to test.
* you want to do some debian packaging in fedora. You use pbuilder to
build your packages, debootstrap is a requires, and you use
debootstrap to test them.
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Pat