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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09.03.25 17:45, Marco d'Itri wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On Mar 09, Matthias Urlichs <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:
matthias@urlichs.de"><
matthias@urlichs.de></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">My "build me a Debian image" script has been doing that for two years now,
simply by moving /var/lib/dpkg to /usr/state/dpkg and bind-mounting it back onto /var/lib/dpkg (symlinking won't work).
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">How so? My /var/lib/dpkg has been a symlink for a very long time.
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Huh. It's been sufficiently long ago that I first did this; IIRC I
simply used a bind mount instead of investigating what replaced the
symlink. If this has since been fixed (by chance?), so much the
better.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Granted that some pieces are missing, most notably /boot (which really
should be populated from /usr (and /etc) instead of being directly installed to), but that's irrelevant when your usecase is booting containers, and
fixable by reinstalling the kernel packages.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="
https://www.linux.it/~md/text/factoryreset-asg2024.pdf">https://www.linux.it/~md/text/factoryreset-asg2024.pdf</a> .
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<p>Ah. Thanks.<br>
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-- Matthias Urlichs</pre>
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