On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 22:10 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Luca Boccassi (2022-07-18 21:03:14) > > It was renamed following a request on #debian-ftp while it was in > > NEW, as the > > feedback was that 'usrmerge' and 'usrmerged' were too similar and > > thus easily > > confused. The 'usrmerged' one can be disregarded and will be de- > > crufted. > > I think that's very sensible. > > > > Does that sound okay to you and does the patch look like it does > > > the right > > > thing? > > > > Yes, without knowing much about mmdebstrap, the diff looks good to > > me. > > I'd only ask that in the comment of the script hooks/no-merged- > > usr/setup00.sh if you could please mention explicitly that it > > creates an > > unsupported system. Maybe even print a warning when it's called. > > Running mmdebstrap with --hook-dir=hooks/no-merged-usr will now print > the > following to stderr: > > Warning: starting with Debian 12 (Bookworm), systems without merged- > /usr are not supported anymore > > > Also, I assume it is creating the metapackage on-the-fly because it > > doesn't > > have the downloaded packages available at that point? Not a > > problem, just > > double checking. > > That is correct. But I think it's not ideal if mmdebstrap creates a > chroot > containing a package that doesn't come from the archive. I now > extended the > hook script such that calling mmdebstrap with --hook- > dir=hooks/merged-usr will > first install the custom built metapackage, then install the > essential packages > and then upgrade to the real usr-is-merged package.
Nice! > I think then the roadmap is to release debootstrap with #71 merged, > then upload > init-system-helpers that depends "usrmerge | usr-is-merged" and then > I test and > upload mmdebstrap including those hook scripts. Since those are just > hooks, > nothing stops people from using them with the mmdebstrap version > currently in > unstable and testing, so nothing should be blocked by this in case I > should > need longer to release an mmdebstrap version shipping these hook > scripts. That's great. Currently waiting on usrmerge=29 to migrate to testing, then the deboostrap change becomes mergeable. Also waiting on Simon to clarify a few things regarding buildds and the plan around that - depending on the outcome, the plan w.r.t. debootstrap might change slightly or not. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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