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See the manpage for (some) documentation.
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Running debootstrap from source
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You can run debootstrap from its source tree without installing it. This
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can be useful if you want a quick way to make a Debian chroot on another
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system, or if you are testing modifications to debootstrap.
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First, get the source.
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* Either by using subversion:
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svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/packages/debootstrap
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* Or by visiting <http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/debootstrap>
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and downloading the tar.gz file
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Then as root, in the debootstrap source directory:
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export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`
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* Cross-strap support - so you can bootstrap a filesystem to the
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point where it will successfully boot, and finish installing itself
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without having to be running the target architecture or OS yourself.
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This means you should be able to run
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debootstrap --arch powerpc sarge ./sarge-ppc-chroot ...
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on an i386 system, boot a powerpc box with sarge-ppc-chroot as its
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root files system, and have it "work". The cross-hurd package does
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something similar, and should be replaced by this feature.
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* There should be some (better) way of telling debootstrap what "base"
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packages you want to install -- this varies between making a chroot,
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doing an install, and doing a buildd. Also, some installs want
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different base packages (to setup networking, or kernels, eg)
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If there's a problem with debootstrap that you need fixed, feel free to do
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an NMU to fix it. Usual rules: try not to break anything, and mail the
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patch to the BTS. Don't worry about asking first though.
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However, note that debootstrap is now team maintained. Anyone in d-i can do
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a release without the bother of a NMU.
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