problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

[Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>]

Hello.

I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate 
mailing list if necessary.

I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the 
R interpreter API.

However, I've repreatedly been unable to use debootstrap to create a new 
base.tgz. There's always a package I cannot download. For instance, 
here, it's cpio.

Any advice on why this may be happening and on what I could or should do 
to get it right?

> I: Retrieving binutils
> I: Validating binutils
> I: Retrieving bsdutils
> I: Validating bsdutils
> I: Retrieving build-essential
> I: Validating build-essential
> I: Retrieving bzip2
> I: Validating bzip2
> I: Retrieving coreutils
> I: Validating coreutils
> I: Retrieving cpio
> W: Couldn't download package cpio

All the best,

Guillaume Yziquel.