Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> [2016-07-31 11:42]:
> Primarily because its a port: https://www.debian.org/ports/ and
> https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ .
> 
> Other, lesser reasons include there's no documentation (follow the
> links above), and using non-port procedures fails sooner than the
> ports procedure:

ports.debian.org is for ports that are not officially part of Debian.
I realize this isn't obvious.

> I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
> --exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel http://ftp.debian.org/

You have to use http://ftp.debian.org/debian

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Martin Michlmayr
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