On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > How will debootstrap react when the decompressors are not available? > > It is going to output an error ... "File not found!" :-)
IMHO it should at the very least test if the decompressor is available [1] and output a more meaningful message than that. A user should not have to grub through the source to find out why it's failing. > > Please don't commit patches blindly. > > I did not. OK. [1] Using 'if type <program> >/dev/null 2>&1' for compatibility with D-I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
