Re: [SOLVED] multistrap (man) page

[Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com>]

Got it working with the aid of Wookey's config file.

I generated my config file from a cut-n-paste from the multistrap man page.
It turns out that multistrap _needs_ the 'aptsources' line to work
properly.  This statement is missing from the man page :(

# the order of sections is no longer important.
# aptsources is a list of sections to be listed
# in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list
# of the target.
aptsources=Grip

Cheers, Brendan.


Neil Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:35:08 +1000
> Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com> wrote:
>
> No need to CC: me, ta.
>
>   
>> My version of multistrap seems to ignore the debootstrap option.
>> multistrap just uses the last settings in the config file.
>>     
>
> I suspect an error in the config file. Check against the working config
> file mentioned by Wookey and/or post the complete config file.
>
>   
>> ii  emdebian-rootf 1.9.0          emdebian root filesystem support
>>     
>
> Latest version is 2.0.2
>
>   
>>> Dir::Cache=/home/brendan/emdebian/multistrap-nocleanup/var/cache/apt/
>>> install   emdebian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree... Done
>>> E: Couldn't find package emdebian-archive-keyring
>>>       
>>>> Cannot open ~/emdebian/multistrap-nocleanup/var/lib/apt/lists/
>>>> directory. No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> I figured it out.  The 'directory' option can not have the tilde
>>>> expansion in the path.  It appears the directory must be absolute. 
>>>> Maybe relative paths are legal too, but common expansions don't seem to
>>>> be expanded.  A man page update me thinks :)
>>>>         
>
> OK, I'll add that to the manpage when I get back - please file a bug
> report so that I don't forget.
>
>