Ben Collins wrote: > > > 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. > Is this the the bug your refering to ? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/25/25759.html
> 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. > Or the full dpkg could be the first package extracted by something with less functionality. Glenn
