Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> (2014-01-09): > Package: debootstrap > Version: 1.0.56 > Severity: normal > > If using debootstrap to create a debian or ubuntu rootfs on a non-debian > system, the baked-in assumption that MAKEDEV is in /sbin is wrong. (It's > not true on an OE rootfs, for example). > > The instructions in README for creating such a rootfs say: > Unpack the tarball then: > make devices.tar.gz > export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd` > debootstrap sid sid > > The make devices.tar.gz step fails when MAKEDEV is not in /sbin. > > We could stop using MAKEDEV, as suggested in #571136. > > In the meantime, changing the line in Makefile > > MAKEDEV := /sbin/MAKEDEV > to > MAKEDEV ?= /sbin/MAKEDEV > > would allow make to be called with a setting for where MAKEDEV is (copying a > version over from somewhere should be practical) > > make MAKEDEV='/home/user/utils/MAKEDEV' devices.tar.gz > > I tested this and it work (so long as an absolute path is given)
Allowing an override shouldn't hurt AFAICT, so I'm tempted to commit this. Mraw, KiBi.
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