On Thursday 18 November 1999, at 1 h 21, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'base', as you may know, is the set of packages or even partial > packages built by the boot-floppies. You can install it even just by > untarring it and chrooting to it.
And for the people who loves HOWTO (% : ordinary user, # : MUST be done as root): % cd /tmp % tar xzvf bf-common.tar.gz # mkdir /spare/debian-root # cd /spare/debian-root # tar xzvf /tmp/common/base2_2.tgz # chroot /spare/debian-root /bin/bash > The first issue testers should look at is whether perl-base really can > exist without perl. I think there are problems here, but no bugs have > been filed! Well, perl-base seems to work, can anyone remind areas where it *may* fail so I can test? data-dumper is apparently missing from "your" base (it should not). The bug seems to be on ftp.debian.org, where the package is missing, I copy the maintainer of data-dumper for more info.
