Quoting Johannes Schauer (2019-01-25 16:10:35) > Hi mika, > > Quoting Michael Prokop (2019-01-25 15:35:17) > > (I nearly missed your bug-report update since I didn't receive a mail but > > only the BTS AFAICS, JFYI) > > whoops, sorry I forgot to CC you. ^^ > > > > A new upstream release of mmdebstrap is currently blocked by #909637 which > > > in turn is blocked by #915559. I intend to remove mmdebstrap from buster > > > if > > > #915559 does not get resolved in time, because one of the main purposes of > > > mmdebstrap is to create a Debian chroot without being root. And the only > > > way to do that on a plain Debian system right now is to use fakechroot > > > (proot produces wrong ownership information). So without fakechroot, > > > mmdebstrap is not very useful and should rather not be part of buster. > > While I think mmdebstrap without requiring root permissions is great > > (thanks!), let me add that mmdebstrap is so fast that it would be worth > > having mmdebstrap in buster just for the speedup reasons, IMO! So please > > reconsider. :) > > If you are in for the speed, would using multistrap not work for you?
Compared to multistrap, mmdebstrap has a commandline interface more in line with debootstrap, making it easier to swap. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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