Re: pbuilder sid chroot libpcap0

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:13:37 +0200
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Why does pbuilder even need to install libpcap0?
> > 
> > Probably because a package with a broken dependency was left over.
> > That's just a rough guess, though.
> 
> pbuilder uses debootstrap.  debootstrap uses a static list of "base"
> and "required" packages it needs to install.
> 
> debootstrap needs to be updated every time something in base and required
> change.

I needed pbuilder on a woody system (to make a sid build).  I installed
testing's pbuilder (it has woody-compatible lib depends) and copied the
/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sid script from pbuilder in unstable.
Works.

Peter