Re: new distribution

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:53:20PM -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> Both involve manually unpacking Debian packages into the chroot, so they
> are "clean" as far as the resulting system is concerned.

"manually" was the wrong word, the unpacking is automated but done using
low-level tools such as "ar", without using the regular package
management facilities. Something like this:

	ar -p "$Deb" data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar xpf -

-Klaus