Package: debootstrap Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Thanks Hello
please consider applying this small patch to the manpage. Kind regards Vince From 1e15507bacfb2547e1c2bace7c3781dd3ab2f45c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcint...@csiro.au> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 20:29:08 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Improve description of --variant A discussion on debian-boot@lists.d.o elicited an explanation of how deboostrap selects packages to install, which seems to be a point of confusion for some users While here, add a colon before the first item in the list of variants. --- debootstrap.8 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debootstrap.8 b/debootstrap.8 index e3ed5d7..2527707 100644 --- a/debootstrap.8 +++ b/debootstrap.8 @@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ set this option to track them through debootstrap.log. .IP .IP "\fB\-\-variant=minbase|buildd|fakechroot\fP" Name of the bootstrap script variant to use. -Currently, the variants supported are minbase, which only includes +Debootstrap reads the Packages file and determines which packages +to install based on the \fIPriority:\fR field of each package and +the selected variant. +Currently, the variants supported are: minbase, which only includes \fIrequired\fR packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential packages and fakechroot, which installs the packages without root privileges. The default, with no \fB\-\-variant=X\fP argument, is to create a -- 2.31.1 --