On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution > might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH > environment variable that ensures that the version of > start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'.
This is the best solution I've seen proposed yet, if we can assume that Bruce's requirement to build base disks is a very special case. If building of base disks is to be a generally-supported debian system activity, however, a less hackish solution is needed (IMHO).