>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 18:12:42 +0200 > David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, >> >> I cannot seem to make multistrap (2.1.13 from svn) work with a (flat) >> 'file:' repository on my system (running under ubuntu 10.04). > The replacement of file:// with copy:// is already covered in the > multistrap man page. Guess I overlooked that. I didn't even know that apt supported a copy:// URI. > 'source' is the apt source to use for this Section. (To use a > local source on the same machine, ensure you use "copy://" not > "file://", so that apt is told to copy the packages into the rootfs > instead of assuming it can try to download them later - because that > "later" will never actually happen. I figured that something like this was the problem. But then I'd expect multistrap to reject any file:// URIs. With the current behaviour the mistake isn't immediately visible, it just silently drops the few files that happen to come from file:// repositories. Maybe we should file a bug report demanding file:// to be rejected? Thanks again for your help, saved me some headaches. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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