Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:44:21PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:37:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It doesn't have a script to actually make base tarballs. Ethan's should > > be usable, if you change a "cd", or if you unpack it yourself. > ill touch up my script whe

Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:37:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > It doesn't have a script to actually make base tarballs. Ethan's should > be usable, if you change a "cd", or if you unpack it yourself. ill touch up my script when i get a chance to look at the new version of debootstrap. > As f

Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:09:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > the tarball must contain cache/apt/archives/ and lib/apt/lists (or > > state/apt/lists). > > So anyway, I'm adding this atm, somewhat modified. You'll need > a tarb

Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:46:45PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Thank you, thank you! This solution should solve my pppoe problem in the > same way as the base tarball does now for potato when I do an install. > I'd be able to separately install the pppoe software after the > basedebs.tgz is ins

Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-20 Thread Russell Hires
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support >Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2001, 10:15 > > > I have written a patch to debootstrap which implements support for > acquiring .debs via a tarball instead

Re: [patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > i wrote a basic script to build a basedebs.tgz its included in this > patch. for this script to work i needed a --download-only option to > debootstrap, so i added that as well. note this script isn't perfect right now, it coul

[patch] debootstrap basedebs tarball support

2001-06-20 Thread Ethan Benson
I have written a patch to debootstrap which implements support for acquiring .debs via a tarball instead of the network. the way this works is you give debootstrap a mirror of tar://some/where/basedebs.tgz instead of a normal file:// or http:// URL. debootstrap will extract the tarball in $T