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Re: apt-move and debootstrap - stable vs sarge



Patterson, Richard A <richard.a.patterson@lmco.com> wrote:
| I am running sarge and am trying to run debootstrap from an apt-move
| repository.  I first noticed that apt-move chose to name the release
| stable rather then sarge.  So within debootstrap(0.2.45-0.2), I created
| /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/stable (based on sarge).
| 
| Now when I run this command, I receive the following error:
| 
| #> debootstrap stable <chrootdir> file:///packages/debian
| I: Retrieving debootstrap.invalid_dists_stable_Release
| I: Validating debootstrap.invalid_dists_stable_Release
| E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-i386/Packages
| 
| I noticed that the string "debootstrap.invalid" is hardcoded in the
| /debootstrap/functions:apt_dest routine.  Rather then try and track this
| down any further, I thought I'd just ask.
| 
| What steps should I have followed?
| Where did I go wrong?
| What should I do now to recover?
| 
| Any thoughts at all are appreciated.  Thank you for your time
| 
I don't know about apt-move, but debootstrap (unstable version) need
to run with --resolve-deps. Without that debian can't configure and
stops installing.

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