Bug#676373: debootstrap: No more can bootstrap Ubuntu releases before Feisty
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.40
Severity: normal
Affects: xen-tools
Dear Maintainer,
while testing xen-tools I noticed that debootstrap can no more
bootstrap the Ubuntu releases Warty, Hoary, Breeazy, Dapper or Edgy.
(Only the last two matter for xen-tools.)
In those cases debootstrap fails with the following error message,
even with the correct mirror (cf. http://bugs.debian.org/676370):
# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --verbose --arch=i386 dapper /tmp/EsVv1M2Clj http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
I: Retrieving Release
E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-i386/Packages
# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --verbose --arch i386 edgy /tmp/EsVv1M2Clj http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
I: Retrieving Release
E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-i386/Packages
#
It doesn't make a difference with or without "--no-check-gpg".
It seems to work for Ubuntu Feisty:
# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --verbose --arch i386 feisty /tmp/EsVv1M2Clj http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
I: Retrieving Release
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
I: Retrieving adduser
I: Validating adduser
I: Retrieving alsa-base
I: Validating alsa-base
I: Retrieving alsa-utils
I: Validating alsa-utils
I: Retrieving apt
I: Validating apt
I: Retrieving apt-utils
I: Validating apt-utils
I: Retrieving aptitude
^CE: Interrupt caught ... exiting
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.13.4-3
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
ii gnupg 1.4.12-4
debootstrap suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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