Hi, Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-23 09:15:30) > > But even if support was there, what you try to do above would not work > > because currently one cannot pass any other configuration than the one in > > /etc/dpkg to dpkg. Since in chrootless mode, we never "chroot", dpkg will > > always use the system configuration and completely ignore whatever you put > > into your chroot using the --dpkgopt option. > > > I talked about this with guillem in #debian-dpkg on IRC and he is aware of > > the > > issue but I don't think there is an open bug about this. > > > > What we could do on the mmdebstrap side, is to warn the user or error out if > > the user tries to run chrootless mode with --dpkgopt. > > Yepp, mmdebootstrap should give a hint that this is not working.
Done in commit ecbc10794c64dc0ff284bdcbf8c03c61c6f75f91 It will now print this warning: "dpkg is unable to read an alternative configuration in chrootless mode -- see Debian bug #808203" > (But even if dpkg would honor the targets settings, the directory would still > be needed to be created and the file being copied…) Done in commit 49f464e7da353f95520c30d06f6a4ddddcdb8fa5 > My 2 cents: As there are fudamental problems with chrootless, maybe this > should be documented in the manpage as "currently non-functional beside > minimal custom variants". (the man page suggests it is a working feature… ) Done in commit d5c8a85aceb9cac6d0a13fbdbdd682e0f198974d I added: "Only very few packages support this mode. Namely, as of 2021, not all essential packages support it, mainly due to missing support in debconf. See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap or the dpkg-root-support usertag of debian-d...@lists.debian.org in the Debian bug tracking system." > If you agree, I'd clone this bug and retitle one "document chrootless not yet > functional" and one for the original reported problem about the > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap. All already taken care of. :) > Do you want to file a bug for dpkg? There already is #808203. Thanks! cheers, josch
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