On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 at 00:12:53 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I did the same testing as for bookworm's #1050868, summarized on > <https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/merge_requests/105>. > As with #1050868, all differences between the output of a reference > version (from Debian 12.1) and the output of this version were expected > or ignorable.
I have now also tried the proposed debootstrap_*.udeb via d-i, using essentially the same steps as in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2023/10/msg00518.html>. This time I installed XFCE rather than GNOME. Installation was successful. Errata: - The steps I wrote were incomplete, installing git and fakeroot on the build machine was also necessary - As previously noted on #1050868, the proposed udeb needs to be copied into debian-installer_bullseye/build/localudebs/ - d-i 11 doesn't include "less", so the step involving viewing /usr/share/debootstrap/functions needs to use "more" instead An additional note is that if you send Ctrl+Alt+F2 sufficiently early in the "Installing the base system" step, and "ls -l /target" repeatedly, you can see that as a result of Helmut's code changes, /target is initially non-merged-/usr then gets converted to merged-/usr after unpacking the Essential set. smcv
