Re: New Debian sparc installation images

[Kieron Gillespie <ciaran.gillespie@gmail.com>]

It's a completely fresh install on formatted disks. Just to double check I was able to reinstall the previous install build (2016-11-5) so there is some sort of regression here. Yeah I was trying to determine why it was throwing that error at line 607 but it appears to just be a closing fi statement.

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 1:38 PM, James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com> wrote:

> On 27 Nov 2016, at 18:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Kieron!
>
>> On 11/27/2016 04:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote:
>> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: sh: apt_dest: unknown operand
>> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: line 607: : Permission denied
>
> This look like a general issue in debian-installer, i.e. not specific to sparc64.
>
> Looking at the source of debootstrap:607 [1], there is just a closing "if" statement
> at this line, so I don't really see where the "Permission denied" should come from.
>
> My first guess was that it's related with the usr-merge which was by enabled by default
> on debootstrap recently, but I currently have no idea really.

Is this to a freshly-formatted partition, or one with
a pre-existing /bin etc? I've seen issues running
debootstrap on the latter before.

Regards,
James