Sorry for the typo in the previous post : the reference should read http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/08/msg00108.html Here is a tentative implementation of a script for debootstrap as an illustration of the previous post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/12/msg00117.html). Comments, improvements and corrections are welcome. How to use it ------------- (the attached file "debian-ports.gz" is ungzipped in the current working directory) debootstrap [OPTION...] unstable TARGET MIRROR ./debian-ports e.g. debootstrap unstable my_chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports ./debian-ports or with some more confidence : cp debian-ports /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ and then debootstrap [OPTION ..] debian-ports TARGET [MIRROR] should work, e.g. debootstrap debian-ports my_chroot Note that checking gpg signatures of retrieved Release files requires the key of the debian-ports archive (2FF7A9F4 at the present time, http://ftp.debian-ports/archive/archive_2013.key). Either install package debian-ports-archive-keyring, or add the key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg (cat archive_2013.key | apt-key add), or use debootstrap option --no-check-gpg to disable gpg signature checking altogether. MIRROR must be a mirror of the debian-ports archive, not of the regular Debian archive. How it works ------------ debootstrap sources a script under /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts to accommodate the peculiarities of the target suite. The attached script "debian-ports" is a slight modification of the one for unstable : - function download_indices is modified to download from unreleased as well. - Packages files from unstable and unreleased are concatenated and sorted by ascending version number. - the default mirror is changed to ftp.debian-ports.org and the default keyring to debian-ports-archive-keyring. - debian-ports-archive-keyring (Prority : extra) is selected for installation in the target. - unreleased is added to etc/apt/sources.list in the target. A python function (copied and pasted from package python-debian) is inlined to sort the Packages file. Perhaps a perl implementation should be preferred, as perl-base is essential - but I am sorry I am not fluent in perl. A minimal C implementation (unoptimized !) is provided in case no python interpreter is available (say, in an installer). See "sort_pkgs" attached : the code is mostly copied and pasted from the sources of base-installer and dpkg. Or the path of an alternative sort program may be given in the environment variable DEBOOTSTRAP_SORT_PKGS. Regards, J.-H. Chatenet PS : please CC me, I am not on the list.
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