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Re: pbuilder create --distribution sarge fails



* Uwe A. P. Würdinger am Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:06:50 +0200:
> I was setting up a new build machine to do some backporting and
> pbuilder 0.156~bpo.1 from backports.org fails to create base.tgz
>
> uwe@buildbox:~$ sudo pbuilder create --distribution sarge
> ...
> P: Unpacking package apt
> P: Configuring package apt
> E: Couldn't install system due to errors!
> pbuilder: cdebootstrap failed
>   -> Aborting with an error
>   -> cleaning the build env
>      -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//19868 and its 
> subdirectories
>
> cdebootstrap is 0.3.10bpo1

Just the same for me. I just changed to debootstrap (don't forget to
change pbuilderrc) and the problem is gone.

Could you report to BTS (I am very short in time, just now), please?

Mathias



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