You should be able to use a chroot combined with a hard link to get the static binaries into a subspace of the filesystem. I'll admit that I am not too familiar with fakeroot.
I am proposing a fairly large change. Perhaps fakeroot would have to be adapted to compensate. I don't see this as a counter-argument. Justin On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 02:24:20PM -0700, Carl R. Witty wrote: > Justin Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > HOW TO MAKE DEBIAN LESS FRAGILE: > > > > All the core system tools, including the package manager (apt_get > > and dpkg) should be available as static binaries rather than dynamic > > executables. > ... > > I previously raised this issue in the devel list, and met with various > > responses. Here are refutations of many of the common counter-arguments: > > If the standard system binaries are statically linked, then you can't > use fakeroot to build packages any more. > > Carl Witty > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
