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@ -6400,45 +6400,52 @@ B<mmdebstrap> creates a Debian chroot of I<SUITE> into I<TARGET> from one or
more I<MIRROR>s. It is meant as an alternative to the debootstrap tool (see
section B<DEBOOTSTRAP>). In contrast to debootstrap it uses apt to resolve
dependencies and is thus able to use more than one mirror and resolve more
complex dependencies. See section B<OPERATION> for an overview of how
B<mmdebstrap> works internally.
complex dependency relationships. See section B<OPERATION> for an overview of
how B<mmdebstrap> works internally.
If no I<MIRROR> option is provided and I<SUITE> is not a stable release name,
L<http://deb.debian.org/debian> is used. If I<SUITE> is a stable release name
and no I<MIRROR> is specified, then mirrors for updates and security are
automatically added. If a I<MIRROR> option starts with "deb " or "deb-src "
then it is used as a one-line-style format entry for apt's sources.list inside
the chroot. If a I<MIRROR> option contains a "://" then it is interpreted as a
mirror URI and the apt line inside the chroot is assembled as "deb [arch=A] B C
D" where A is the host's native architecture, B is the I<MIRROR>, C is the
given I<SUITE> and D is the components given via B<--components> (defaults to
"main"). If a I<MIRROR> option happens to be an existing file, then its
contents are pasted into the chroot's sources.list. This can be used to supply
a deb822 style sources.list. If I<MIRROR> is C<-> then standard input is pasted
into the chroot's sources.list. More than one mirror can be specified and are
appended to the chroot's sources.list in the given order. If you specify a
https or tor I<MIRROR> and you want the chroot to be able to update itself,
don't forget to also install the ca-certificates package, the
apt-transport-https package for apt versions less than 1.5 and/or the
apt-transport-tor package using the B<--include> option, as necessary.
The optional I<TARGET> argument can either be the path to a directory, the path
to a tarball filename, the path to a squashfs image, the path to an ext2 image,
a FIFO, a character special device, or C<->. Without the B<--format> option,
I<TARGET> will be used to choose the format. See the section B<FORMATS> for
more information. If no I<TARGET> was specified or if I<TARGET> is C<->, an
uncompressed tarball will be sent to standard output.
The I<SUITE> may be a valid release code name (eg, sid, stretch, jessie) or a
symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable). Any suite name that
works with apt on the given mirror will work. If no I<SUITE> was specified,
then a single I<MIRROR> C<-> is added and thus the information of the desired
suite has to come from standard input as part of a valid apt sources.list file.
The I<SUITE> option may either be a valid release code name (eg, sid, bookworm,
trixie) or a symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable). Any
suite name that works with apt on the given mirror will work. The I<SUITE>
option is optional if no I<TARGET> and no I<MIRROR> option is provided. If
I<SUITE> is missing, then the information of the desired suite has to come from
standard input as part of a valid apt sources.list file or be set up via hooks.
The value of the I<SUITE> argument will be used to determine which apt index to
use for finding out the set of C<Essential:yes> packages and/or the set of
packages with the right priority for the selected variant. See the section
packages with the right priority for the selected variant. This functionality
can be disabled by choosing the empty string for I<SUITE>. See the section
B<VARIANTS> for more information.
The I<TARGET> option may either be the path to a directory, the path to a
tarball filename, the path to a squashfs image, the path to an ext2 image, a
FIFO, a character special device, or C<->. The I<TARGET> option is optional if
no I<MIRROR> option is provided. If I<TARGET> is missing or if I<TARGET> is
C<->, an uncompressed tarball will be sent to standard output. Without the
B<--format> option, I<TARGET> will be used to choose the format. See the
section B<FORMATS> for more information.
The I<MIRROR> option may either be provided as a URI, in apt one-line format,
as a path to a file in apt's one-line or deb822-format, or C<->. If no
I<MIRROR> option is provided, then L<http://deb.debian.org/debian> is used as
the default. If I<SUITE> does not refer to "unstable" or "testing", then
I<SUITE>-updates and I<SUITE>-security mirrors are automatically added. If a
I<MIRROR> option starts with "deb " or "deb-src " then it is used as a one-line
format entry for apt's sources.list inside the chroot. If a I<MIRROR> option
contains a "://" then it is interpreted as a mirror URI and the apt line inside
the chroot is assembled as "deb [arch=A] B C D" where A is the host's native
architecture, B is the I<MIRROR>, C is the given I<SUITE> and D is the
components given via B<--components> (defaults to "main"). If a I<MIRROR>
option happens to be an existing file, then its contents are written into the
chroot's sources.list (if the first I<MIRROR> is a file in one-line format) or
into the chroot's sources.list.d directory, named with the extension .list or
.sources, depending on whether the file is in one-line or deb822 format,
respectively. If I<MIRROR> is C<-> then standard input is pasted into the
chroot's sources.list. More than one mirror can be specified and are appended
to the chroot's sources.list in the given order. If you specify a https or tor
I<MIRROR> and you want the chroot to be able to update itself, don't forget to
also install the ca-certificates package, the apt-transport-https package for
apt versions less than 1.5 and/or the apt-transport-tor package using the
B<--include> option, as necessary.
All status output is printed to standard error unless B<--logfile> is used to
redirect it to a file or B<--quiet> or B<--silent> is used to suppress any
output on standard error. Help and version information will be printed to