On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Control: tag -1 + patch > > On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:55:14 +0100 Brian Drummond <bri...@shapes.demo > n.co.uk> wrote: > > > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where > > appropriate *** > > > > 8) I said this was embarassing... > > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > ineffective)? > > debootstrap --print-debs /chroot/i386 > > > if I understand correctly, the problem is two-fold: > > - debootstrap removes everything in a directory even if there was > stuff in it > beforehand (this should not happen) > > - debootstrap removes recursively across filesystem boundaries (how > was this > not noticed earlier?) > > The following patch should fix this:
Thank you! If I understand the patch, it should have the desired effect. I find myself strangely reluctant to test it ... may I be forgiven? (I know ... why don't I just chroot into a safe place and test it there? :-) Hopefully it will be accepted into Debian and stop somebody else making such a fool of themselves... Thanks again! -- Brian
