Re: Problems installing Woody from Linux/m68k
Op ma 24-02-2003, om 21:11 schreef Kars de Jong:
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:31, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Op zo 23-02-2003, om 18:01 schreef Kars de Jong:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried installing Woody to a new partition from my existing Linux/m68k
> > > installation (home brewn), using debootstrap as described in the
> > > installation guide.
> > > I quickly ran into a problem though: glibc symbol versions.
> > >
> > > I have an old glibc version installed (glibc 2.1.3) and apparently
> > > debootstrap requires at least version 2.3:
> > >
> > > bash-2.03# debootstrap --arch m68k woody /mnt/debinst http://ftp.belnet.be/debian
> > > I: Retrieving http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/dists/woody/Release
> > > I: Validating /mnt/debinst/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_Release
> > > I: Retrieving http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-m68k/Packages.gz
> > > I: Validating /mnt/debinst/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_main_binary-m68k_Packages.gz
> > > /usr/lib/debootstrap/pkgdetails: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /usr/lib/debootstrap/pkgdetails)
> > > bash-2.03#
> > >
> > > Isn't it possible to build debootstrap using an older glibc version? Now
> > > I'm forced to use a different installation method...
> > >
> > > I installed debootstrap_0.1.17.17_m68k.deb by the way.
> >
> > That's the unstable version, I presume?
> >
> > You'd have to install the unstable glibc if you'd want to do that.
> > Wouldn't advice that, though.
>
> I suppose I could try an older debootstrap.
You could do that too, of course. I assumed you needed certain features
of debootstrap which were only available in the unstable version --
incorrectly, perhaps?
> > An easier solution is to make sure there's a deb-src line in your
> > /etc/apt/sources.list that points to unstable, and run the following
> > chain of commands:
> >
> > apt-get update; apt-get install build-essential; apt-get build-dep
> > debootstrap; apt-get -b source debootstrap; dpkg -i debootstrap_0*deb
> >
> > This should download the unstable sources for debootstrap, compile them,
> > and install them. After that, you should no longer have any problems
> > running debootstrap.
>
> Yes, that would work if I was installing from a Debian system, however,
> I'm not.
Uh?
<glances at emailaddress>
<blushes>
Ah. Whoops. Sorry, since I didn't know you, I went into
explain-to-newbie mode. Never mind ;-)
> I could of course build it by hand.
Sure.
> A binary that works would obviously be more convenient ;-)
Sure. If you could try the stable version first (stable has glibc 2.2),
I'll try to compile you the unstable version in a potato chroot. If it
still doesn't work with that, you're out of luck :-P
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