Comment 49 for bug 539814

I hacked a bit on debootstrap to teach it about lucid-proposed, and can confirm that this updated tar resolves the inability to debootstrap lucid on an old kernel (in this case, the 2.6.18 variant shipped with RHEL5.4). Thanks for following up and driving this to closure; I was not looking forward to backporting enough current packages to lenny to run the LAMP stack app I need. (RHEL was of course not even an option, userland-wise; but as long as I leave it on there as the boot environment, I don't have to deal with the hardware.)

The debootstrap hack I did was pretty gross, and doesn't know about lucid-updates or lucid-security. Assuming this version of tar makes it out of lucid-proposed, will it go to lucid or lucid-updates? If the latter, it won't do people a lot of good unless there's a better way than my hack to get debootstrap to use -updates right out the chute. Is there another debootstrap floating around that does know how to compress the "debootstrap, update sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade" sequence down to a single pass?