Install mmdebstrap from source

Question

I am trying to install mmdebstrap from source. I cannot find any instructions online nor file any Makefiles and such in the repo

Answer 1

1. this seems to be a rather small project. If anyone on here knows it, it'd be by luck! So, often such repositories would come with references to mailing list, chat rooms or bug trackers. I'm not a fan of people asking questions on bug trackers, but lack of installation instructions is imho a bug, which one would want to track on such, and if you formulate it as bug report, instead of a unpaid support request, that'd be fine :)

2. Since this is inherently tied to the debian ecosystem, looking at the official package, and how that is built, is going to get you further. Downloading mmdebstrap_VERSION.debian.tar.xz from that page, and looking at the rules file inside reveals:

    mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/bin
    cp -a mmdebstrap debian/tmp/usr/bin/mmdebstrap
    cp -a taridshift debian/tmp/usr/bin/mmtaridshift
    cp -a tarfilter debian/tmp/usr/bin/mmtarfilter
    mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/lib/apt/solvers
    cp -a proxysolver debian/tmp/usr/lib/apt/solvers/mmdebstrap-dump-solution
    mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/share/mmdebstrap
    cp -a hooks debian/tmp/usr/share/mmdebstrap

Just remove the debian/tmp prefix, and there you go: here's how you install mmdebstrap from source.