Bug#649146: debootstrap: bootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to nested fakeroot usage

[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

package: debootstrap
version: 1.0.37
severity: important

Hi,

debootstrapping squeeze with the fakechroot variant leads to a nested
usage of fakeroot.  For example

$ fakeroot fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot
squeeze --verbose ./squeeze-fakechroot
[...]
I: Extracting xz-utils...
I: Extracting zlib1g...
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot
/media/newhd/chroots/squeeze-fakechroot dpkg --force-depends --install
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_6.0squeeze3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.22_amd64.deb

The tail of squeeze-fakechroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log contains
the following:

    fakeroot: FAKEROOTKEY set to 1661226400
    fakeroot: nested operation not yet supported

Note that bootstrapping sid seems to be ok with the same command

$ fakeroot fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot sid
--verbose ./sid-fakechroot
[ok]

Thanks for looking into this.

Best wishes,
Mike