> I thought it would be a handy to be able to extract debs on the floppies > without requiring the full functionality of dpkg-deb. > > e.g. instead of having a big pre-prepared base.tgz some base files could > be just extracted from their regular debs.
The only problem with that is expressed in a bug report on dpkg. It does not honor some symlinks like dpkg would. For example, if you have a symlink from /var to /usr/var, tar would simply overwrite with a directory. Maybe one day we can have the full dpkg in the boot disks, or something that can atleast mimic enough functionality to do the job for new installs. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
