Re: problem creating pbuilder environment

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net> writes:

> Am Samstag, den 07.05.2005, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Andreas Fester:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to create a pbuilder environment. Since the default
>> server ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp is *really* slow, I used the command
>> 
>> # pbuilder create --mirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
>> 
>> However, this ends with an unmet dependency message:
>> 
>> ...
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>    passwd: Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.00) but it is not installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
>>   -> Aborting with an error
>>   -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
>>   -> unmounting proc filesystem
>>   -> cleaning the build env
>>      -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//9136 and its 
>> subdirectories
>
> I guess, this is a problem with debootstrap, which misses to install a
> few packages. The dependency on debconf seems to a new one. I ran

Can't someone change pbuilder to use cdebootstrap? This static package
list in debootstrap is insane.

MfG
        Goswin