[Toybox] Linux From Scratch build.

David Seikel onefang_toybox at dave.isageek.net
Sun Apr 16 16:59:26 PDT 2023


On 2023-04-16 18:54:04, Rob Landley wrote:
> Then I try to reproduce it in a container or vm, still with host tools. This
> pretty much means "debootstrap", but that's a known thing I've done before.

Have you looked at mmdebstrap instead of debootstrap?  From the package
description -

"Downloads, unpacks and installs Debian packages to either directly create a
directory which can be chrooted into, or a tarball of it. In contrast to
debootstrap it uses apt, supports more than one mirror, automatically uses
security and updates mirrors for Debian stable chroots, is 3-6 times faster,
produces smaller output by removing unnecessary cruft, is bit-by-bit
reproducible if $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, allows unprivileged operation using
Linux user namespaces, fakechroot or proot and can setup foreign architecture
chroots using qemu-user."

I switched to it for my last Devuan Chimaera install, I previously used
debootstrap for my installs.

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