On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:32:27AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > Have you looked at the package 'debootstrap'? It does much of what you are > looking for. Perhaps you can look at that and coordinate with Anthony Towns so > you two aren't doing duplicate work.
No I haven't, thanks. (But I have already finished the installation and I don't plan on doing it again soon.) > > 1. dpkg won't do anything at all if /var/lib/dpkg doesn't exist and > > doesn't contain two files (status, available) and two directories > > (info, updates). They can all be empty, but you have to create > > them by hand. I don't see why dpkg doesn't create these if they > > don't exist. > I agree that this would be nice. Perhaps file a wishlist bug against dpkg? bug #89327. > > base-config has serious bugs at present. Passwords are echoed to the > > screen, and it does some ridiculous grep loop over the password file > > which takes about five minutes to complete. With no indication of > > what's happening. I thought it had wedged. Finally, it gets > > seriously confused when it hits the bit about running tasksel or > > dselect, and errors out. I wound up setting up shadow MD5 passwords > > and accounts by hand - this is not hard. > ick, have bugs been filed? bugs #89324 and #89325, echoing passwords and hanging for two minutes, respectively. I don't remember enough details about what happened when it tried to run tasksel to file a coherent bug report. zw