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Multistrap transition



I'm going to release emdebian-rootfs 2.0.7 today - without the cascade
support mentioned earlier because 2.0.7 will be a "stabilisation"
release.

2.0.7 will be the LAST release of emsandbox and the emdebian-rootfs
source package.

2.1.0 will be the first release of multistrap as a source package
providing only a multistrap binary package. In that package,
em_multistrap will disappear and the binary will
be /usr/sbin/multistrap. This already exists, so change your scripts
now. em_multistrap was meant to be for the cross support but there
proved to be insufficient differences between the two methods to
justify a separate script.

2.1.0 will include the experimental support for cascading
configuration, a ported version of machine:variant support from
emsandbox (support for config.sh and setup.sh but not packages.conf) as
well as experimental support for reduced numbers of packages in the
core multistrap package list.

2.1.x will therefore be a tad unstable for a while and with so many
extensions going into the same series, it will require some testing.
None of the changes are in SVN yet.

If people prefer, 2.1.0 can go into Debian experimental - as long as
some people do actually run it and file bugs.

This also means that the emdebian-rootfs source package will not make
it into a stable release as it was part of emdebian-tools in Lenny.

If multistrap testing goes well, I'll be ripping emdebian-tools apart
over the Easter break and remaking it for those Crush experiments.

Why is this happening now? Basically because Squeeze was going to have
been released by now ...

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Neil Williams
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