* Tong Sun <bts@bts.grml.org> [20081005 23:10]:

> Ah, I made a mistake. I agree absolutely that copying /bin & /sbin from the
> running system to the target system doesn't make any sense. 

> I meant only those from /etc/debootstrap/, so I should have said:

>   [ -d ...   ] && cp -a -L /etc/debootstrap/bin/*   $MNTPOINT/bin/

> how is that this time?

Yes, that makes sense. :) Thanks, done:

http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=commit;h=b38efce83a3195e0db5e11305e0ce54ac7fdb985

regards,
-mika-