On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:49:03PM -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > "debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without > requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading > .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a > directory which can eventually be chrooted into." > > > Why do we have this in the first place? I'm not against Debian or the > downloading thereof, but... I really cannot think of any real Fedora use > case for this. Maybe I'm unimaginative today? Indeed you are. For example it can be used * to check how debian packages are done. I personally used it to check how t1lib is packaged on debian. * imagine you have to prepare a course in computer science and the computers are under debian and you want to test. * you want to do some debian packaging in fedora. You use pbuilder to build your packages, debootstrap is a requires, and you use debootstrap to test them. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
