On 9/23/25 13:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Sep 23, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote: 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 onwheezy.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...Just pass "--no-check-gpg" to debootstrap then to skip GPG verification.The debootstrap seems to work and then produced nothing useful. 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. 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.debootstrap definitely works. But unless you provide the debootstrap.log file, I cannot tell you what’s wrong.
Likely some small mistake on my part. nix# cd /mnt/debootstrap/ nix# nix# debootstrap \ --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \ --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring,wget \ --arch=sparc64 unstable \ /mnt/debootstrap http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature (key id 519759FBC670BFA6C87E42413AF65F93D6FBC5B9) I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...I: Found additional required dependencies: debian-archive-keyring gcc-15-base libacl1 libapt-pkg7.0 libattr1 libaudit-common libaudit1 libblkid1 libbsd0 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcap-ng0 libcap2 libcrypt1 libdb5.3t64 libdebconfclient0 libgcc-s1 libgmp10 libhogweed6t64 liblastlog2-2 liblz4-1 liblzma5 libmd0 libmount1 libnettle8t64 libpam0g libpcre2-8-0 libselinux1 libsemanage-common libsemanage2 libsepol2 libsmartcols1 libsqlite3-0 libssl3t64 libstdc++6 libsystemd0 libtinfo6 libudev1 libuuid1 libxxhash0 libzstd1 openssl-provider-legacy sqv zlib1g I: Found additional base dependencies: libbpf1 libcap2-bin libcom-err2 libedit2 libelf1t64 libext2fs2t64 libfdisk1 libffi8 libgnutls30t64 libgssapi-krb5-2 libidn2-0 libjansson4 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkmod2 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblocale-gettext-perl libmnl0 libncursesw6 libnewt0.52 libnftables1 libnftnl11 libp11-kit0 libpopt0 libproc2-0 libpsl5t64 libreadline8t64 libslang2 libss2 libsystemd-shared libtasn1-6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtirpc-common libtirpc3t64 libunistring5 libxtables12 logsave
I: Checking component main on http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports... I: Retrieving adduser I: Validating adduser I: Retrieving cron-daemon-common I: Validating cron-daemon-common I: Retrieving debconf-i18n I: Validating debconf-i18n . . . I: Retrieving whiptail I: Validating whiptail I: Retrieving zlib1g I: Validating zlib1g I: Chosen extractor for .deb packages: dpkg-deb I: Extracting debconf... nix# nix# pwd /mnt/debootstrap nix# ls -la /mnt/debootstrap/ total 48 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 23 12:39 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 22 16:01 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 04:14 debootstrap drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 22 16:01 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 23 03:53 var nix# nix# cd /mnt/debootstrap/debootstrap/ nix# ls -a . .. debootstrap.log debpaths OKay .. a log file and some txt file. nix# cat debootstrap.log gpgv: Signature made Tue Sep 23 03:41:37 2025 EDT using RSA key ID D6FBC5B9gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Ports Archive Automatic Signing Key (2025) <ftpmaster@ports-master.debian.org>" dpkg-deb: error: archive './/var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_1.5.91_all.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors nix# Right. So it looks like all the deb packages are of the modern type and this old wheezy can not process them. That seems to be the problem. I am going to fire off mkfs.ext4 and create a new clean filesystem. -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken