dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool: Truncate.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn b/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn
index 14610fb..af7b47a 100644
--- a/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn
+++ b/dev/todo/installation-bootstrap-tool.mdwn
@@ -1,40 +1,3 @@
 [[!meta title="Installation Bootstrap Tool"]]
 
-A tool similar to [debootstrap][debootstrap] of Debian needs to be written to
-bootstrap the installation of a basic system.  It can be used for building
-packages (see "Package Cross Building Tool" below) or installing the operating
-system on hardware targets.
-
-Basically, the tool would fetch from the package archive the index of packages,
-determine which packages need to be installed, download each package, and unpack
-each package.  Since the package manager may not be available, the tool must
-handle dependency resolution and package unpacking on its own.
-
-To be determined is how the "second stage" of the installation ‒ the execution
-of package maintainer scripts (`preinst` and `postinst`) to complete the
-configuration of each package ‒ will be done.  At least most of the time, this
-tool will be used to install packages built for an architecture that differs
-from the architecture on which the tool is run; therefore utilities used by
-maintainer scripts may not be executable.  In this situation, debootstrap leaves
-behind a copy of itself in the installed system to be executed on the target
-architecture.  Such a solution might not work for this tool, because nothing can
-be executed on the target architecture until the installed system is booted, and
-the installed system shouldn't be booted until after the packages are
-configured.
-
-We can't use debootstrap, since the formats of our binary packages and package
-archives differ slightly from those of Debian.  But we can model our tool after
-debootstrap or even just fork debootstrap.
-
-If written portably (i.e. in conformance with POSIX.1), this tool could be used
-to make base system images on any UNIX-like operating system with an
-implementation of tar.  On any operating system that also has a chroot program,
-this tool can be used with the package cross building tool described below to
-build packages for this distribution.  Therefore, these tools can be thought of
-as a "Software Development Kit" ("SDK") for the distribution, usable on any
-capable development system.
-
-Hopefully, this tool can be done by October 2012.
-
-
-[debootstrap]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debootstrap.git;a=tree
+Page removed.