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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-02-25 20:10:21 (GMT)
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-02-25 20:10:21 (GMT)
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man page cleanup and minor adjustment for wheezy
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diff --git a/debootstrap.8 b/debootstrap.8
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--- a/debootstrap.8
+++ b/debootstrap.8
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ debootstrap \- Bootstrap a basic Debian system
.B debootstrap
bootstraps a basic Debian system of
.I SUITE
-(eg, lenny, squeeze, sid; or stable, testing, unstable) into
+into
.I TARGET
from
.I MIRROR
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ by running
.IR SCRIPT .
.I MIRROR
can be an http:// URL, a file:/// URL, or an ssh:/// URL.
+.PP
+The
+.I SUITE may be a release code name (eg, sid, wheeze, squeeze, lenny)
+or a symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable)
+.PP
Notice that file:/ URLs are translated to file:/// (correct scheme as
described in RFC1738 for local filenames), and file:// will \fBnot\fR work.
ssh://USER@HOST/PATH URLs are retrieved using
@@ -149,11 +154,11 @@ Read the private key from file
.SH EXAMPLES
.
.PP
-To setup a \fIsqueeze\fR system:
+To setup a \fIwheezy\fR system:
.PP
-# debootstrap squeeze ./squeeze-chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
+# debootstrap wheezy ./wheezy-chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
.PP
-# debootstrap squeeze ./squeeze-chroot file:///PATH_TO_LOCAL_MIRROR/debian
+# debootstrap wheezy ./wheezy-chroot file:///PATH_TO_LOCAL_MIRROR/debian
.PP
Full process to create a complete Debian installation of \fIsid\fR (unstable):
.PP
@@ -173,10 +178,6 @@ Full process to create a complete Debian installation of \fIsid\fR (unstable):
[ define a login tty that will use this system ]
main # init q
[ reload init ]
-.PP
-Note that you will generally need a recent version of debootstrap to
-do this; the version currently in stable may stop working due to changes
-to unstable shortly after the last release.
.SH AUTHOR
.B debootstrap
was written by Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>.