Re: Trying to piece together a procedure that works : debootstrap and gpg keys?
On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 03:57 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > Not sure what kind of host system you're doing this on
>
> wheezy.
Well, that information is necessary.
> > > So tomorrow is another day.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > # wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> > # dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> >
>
> Yep. Everything fails of course :
>
> nix#
> nix# wget
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> --2025-09-23 03:41:33--
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> Resolving ftp.debian.org (ftp.debian.org)... 151.101.126.132,
> 2a04:4e42:1e::644
> Connecting to ftp.debian.org (ftp.debian.org)|151.101.126.132|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 36804 (36K) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package]
> Saving to: `debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb'
>
> 100%[==============================================================================>]
> 36,804 --.-K/s in 0.01s
>
> 2025-09-23 03:41:33 (2.76 MB/s) -
> `debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb' saved [36804/36804]
>
> nix# dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> dpkg-deb: error: archive
> 'debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb' contains not
> understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
> dpkg: error processing debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> (--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
> nix#
>
> I have to go to a modern Debian system and extract the guts out of that
> package and then manually extract the tar ball.
It fails because the dpkg version in Wheezy is ancient and doesn't understand
the compression format of deb packages from unstable.
>
> I am working on it ... ever so slowly.
Just pass "--no-check-gpg" to debootstrap then to skip GPG verification.
Adrian
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