Re: Trying to piece together a procedure that works : debootstrap and gpg keys?
> On Sep 23, 2025, at 7:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 23, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
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>>> On 9/23/25 04:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 03:57 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>>> Not sure what kind of host system you're doing this on
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>>>> wheezy.
>>> Well, that information is necessary.
>>>>>> So tomorrow is another day.
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>>>>> Try:
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>>>>> # 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
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>>> Just pass "--no-check-gpg" to debootstrap then to skip GPG verification.
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>> The debootstrap seems to work and then produced nothing useful.
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>> At the very least it is a file system with nothing in it that
>> I could do a chroot with. There are a pile of deb packages in
>> a directory structure but nothing else.
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>> Feels like this machine will go to Gentoo again and the new S7-2 will
>> try Debian. I can coordinate with Tony Rodriguez with regards to the
>> modern S7-2 because he has that working.
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> debootstrap definitely works. But unless you provide the debootstrap.log file, I cannot tell you what’s wrong.
FWIW, I don’t recommend using debootstrap from Wheezy to create an unstable chroot.
In general, mixing Wheezy and unstable is really tricky unless you are very experienced with Debian and know how to fix the compatibility issues.
Adrian
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