Hi, 2012/5/14, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it>: > On May 14, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > >> Ie, the problem is not in d-i, but in running debootstrap on foreign >> systems. And that's indeed not easily fixable :( > Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? > We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other issues. > (I know, not all the world is a VAX, etc... But we cannot solve *every* > problem.) > > If the problem is "foreign systems without xz" then we will never be > able to use XZ for base. How about switching to xz in the standard installer and providing an alternate installer with recompressed packages using gzip/bz2?
This would allow us to support most systems and save on bandwidth/mirror space. Cheers, Balint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak0odpz22hykynctp+3vp10oj0q8r5p_tr2s+gofz12zqcm...@mail.gmail.com
