Bug#549879: debootstrap: --variant=minbase is broken for squeez e

["Danny Clark" <danny@opensysadmin.com>]

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Danny

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Punky Tse wrote:

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.19
Severity: normal

I used the following debootstrap command with --variant=minbase:
# debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase squeeze ./squeeze-chroot \
http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian

Then, it encounters error when configuring at libbz2-1.0:

...
I: Unpacking libreadline5...
I: Unpacking libusb-0.1-4...
I: Unpacking readline-common...
I: Configuring the base system...
I: Configuring libusb-0.1-4...
I: Configuring libbz2-1.0...
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3+lenny1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

debootstrap suggests no packages.

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