On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > [snip] > > > Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should > > have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves. > > What if {c}debootstrap isn't available in their environment? That's > specifically the case I was talking about. > > I suppose we may consider distributing {c}debootstrap in a > distro-neutral, self-contained package, but I'm unsure how difficult > that is.
debootstrap was specifically written to not require anything from a Debian system; it should work on just about any POSIX system. At least that was the case a decade ago; I must admit I haven't been following along very well. If that's still the case, then all you really need is to do something like "alien --to-tgz debootstrap*deb" -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org