Hector Oron wrote:
Does debian-ports.org remove binaries from unstable if a newer version is uploaded to unreleased or something? because there has certainly been a dpkg in armhf unstable in the past but there doesn't seem to be right now.Hello, 2011/10/15 peter green <peter.green@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>:# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg sid . http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian >However, the resulting file system does not seem to contain a dpkg executableI don't know for sure why it didn't end up in there but I suspect it's due to there being no armhf binary of the current unstable version (at least there doesn't appear to be one).It is on 'unreleased' suite due to a dpkg bug preventing to bootstrap armhf with multistrap (uses multiple repositories for bootstrapping). A fixed dpkg will be in 'unstable' suite as soon as its built as it has already been uploaded a new version with the fix in it.
root@debian:~# chroot /chroots/sid-armhf/ (this chroot hadn't been updated for a while)
root@debian:/# apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.16.0.3
Candidate: 1.16.0.3
Version table:
*** 1.16.0.3 0
500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ sid/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@debian:/# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB]
<snip>Ign http://ftp.debian-ports.org unreleased/main Translation-en Fetched 13.6 MB in 2min 7s (107 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done
root@debian:/# apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.16.0.3
Candidate: 1.16.1+armhf.1
Version table:
1.16.1+armhf.1 0
500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unreleased/main armhf
Packages
*** 1.16.0.3 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@debian:/#
You might want to read the bug report as it will hint you on how you can easily bootstrap with an alternative to debootstrap, multistrap: <http://bugs.debian.org/644492> Kind regards,