This file is one APT creates to make sure we don't "autoremove" our currently in-use kernel, which doesn't really apply to debootstraps/Docker images that don't even have kernels installed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew "Tianon" Page <admwiggin@gmail.com>
Later versions of `apt` are smart enough to just create this directory if it's missing, but Lucid balks (just like `gnupg` and `gpgv` aren't in the Required set so don't come in a minbase -- good ol' Lucid).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Page <admwiggin@gmail.com>
This results in a dramatic improvement in the size of individual "apt-get update" layers (on a clean wheezy base, from "29.88 MB" down to "8.273 MB").
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Andrew Page <admwiggin@gmail.com> (github: tianon)
Note that the archive does _not_ have a symlink from oldstable-lts to squeeze-lts, hence the change from using "${suite}" to not using it in here and just using the string "squeeze-lts" directly regardless of whether we're building a "squeeze" image or an "oldstable" image.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Andrew Page <admwiggin@gmail.com> (github: tianon)
These new scripts are streamlined such that, for example, "contrib/mkimage/debootstrap" is _only_ responsible for filling a directory with the results of running debootstrap, and it can accept any arbitrary arguments.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Andrew Page <admwiggin@gmail.com> (github: tianon)