Re: INIT problems continue

[Eric Sharkey <sharkey@netrics.com>]

> Search the archives for /etc/apt/preferences file. You'll probably have
> to recreate your chroot from scratch, but if you do this:
> 
>   1) debootstrap using alioth
>   2) add the /etc/apt/preferences file with the proper "pinnings"
>   3) edit your /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> then the i386 packages shouldn't clobber the preferred amd64 ones.


Ok, I've decided to start over from scratch.  Maybe if I didn't install
a proper chroot the first time, then something may have gone wrong
with the kernel compile, which may have given me the screwy results
I'm seeing.

I've done this:

mastermind:/# mkdir /x86-64     
mastermind:/# debootstrap sid /x86-64 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
[debooststrap output]

And then set up a sources.list with:

deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ sid main

above the normal sid lines and this preferences file:

Package: *
Pin: release l=Debian-amd64
Pin-Priority: 1500

But this leads to dependency problems, because libc6 2.3.2-7.biarch1
will be installed, and many packages in the normal Debian apt
repository depend on higher versions.

Attempting to do the gcc install (copied straight from the HOWTO)
yields:

mastermind:/# apt-get install -u libc6 libc6-dev gcc-3.3 libncurses5-dev wget bzip2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
wget is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  wget: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) but 2.3.2-7.biarch1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

because there is no i386 package for wget on alioth.

Skipping wget isn't a solution, because other essential packages are
in the same position:

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt base-files base-passwd (due to base-files) bash debianutils grep gzip
  hostname initscripts util-linux (due to initscripts) ncurses-bin sysvinit
  zlib1g (due to util-linux)

I really don't want to know what a Debian system would be like if I
removed bash.

Is there some way out of this?

Eric