Re: pbuilder failing

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

> > (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder create --distribution sid
> > --buildplace /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/ --buildresult /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/sid/
> >
> > E: Couldn't download libpcap0
> >
> > pbuilder: debootstrap failed
>
> Looks like your debootstrap is severely out of date. From the debootstrap
> changelog entry for 0.1.17.7 (Wed, 21 Aug 2002):
>   * Forked "sid" target from "sarge" target, changed "libcap0" to the now
>     current "libpcap0.7" and verified that the result works with pbuilder.
>     (Closes: #156574)

(pts/1)jason@phaeton:~$ dpkg -l debootstrap
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  debootstrap    0.1.17         Bootstrap a basic Debian system

this is debootstrap from stable (woody).  does this mean pbuilder is incapable 
of building a sid base.tgz from a woody system?

-jason pepas