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Re: 2.3.6 uploaded



On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:56:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:05:39PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > Sorry no patch (but I uploaded debootstrap for m68k :-)
> > I don't suppose you tested it? It'd probably be a good idea to.
> No I didn't. I thought you tested it before you uploaded the source?

Sure, on i386. But every port has its own little subtleties, and that's the
first ever time it's been built for m68k...

> > Find somewhere with around 100MB free space, cd in there, and as root run
> > 	debootstrap woody woody-chroot/ http://ftp.kernel.org/debian/
> /usr/sbin/debootstrap: wget: command not found
> then:
> debootstrap woody woody-chroot/ http://ftp.kernel.org/debian/
> I: Retrieving http://ftp.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/Release
> E: Failed getting release file
> http://ftp.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/Release

Uh, then try with wget installed? :) (And maybe make sure your proxy
settings or whatever are correct) Running `wget http://www.debian.org/'
at the prompt is expected to work; from the above, it looks like it
doesn't for you...

> /usr/lib/debootstrap/arch says m68k, what other arch specific stuff is in
> there?

Different packages make up base on different arches (lilo versus milo, eg),
mainly.

Cheers,
aj

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