Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:48:37AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:04:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:48:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > I don't think woody's debootstrap will work directly for sid chroots, so
> > > you need to setup a woody one and upgrade it to sid.
>
> (I am not subscribed now)
>
> I just installed debootstrap into my woody chroot :-)
>
> "debootstrap sid" works but it does not work perfectly as I wished.
>
> When I did "debootstrap sid":
> ...
> I: Retrieving
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb
> I: Validating
> //sid/var/cache/apt/archives/libncurses5_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb
> E: Couldn't download libnewt0
>
> > Ah. A fair point ...
>
> In woody version, "sid" is symlinked to "woody" in
> /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/.
>
> So command line "debootstrap sid" should work sort of OK.
It'll work if you hack it heavily, but it's definitely unsupported, and
I think anyone who works on debootstrap will tell you that too. I'm now
convinced that my original bug report was wrong (I do change my mind
occasionally :)).
> But selected base and required package does not contain new things such
> as coreutils. This is more of a bug inherent to the fact no one can
> predict future. Unless Debian change its stable package upgrade
> criteria, this type of bug will stay on the system.
>
> I will think about it how to fix this situation. Partial upgrade of
> debootstrap to unstable seems to be the only option to get this
> working...
You could compile the unstable version from source on woody fairly
easily, yes.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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