Re: pbuilder trouble -- bingo!
For some reason, I only saw this mail now. Thanks much for the mouthful:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> ...
>> >> Running (c)debootstrap alone gives no problems so I don't know where
>> >> to start diagnosing my problem.
>> >
>> > You are creating very special setting. I do not even know if you have
>> > /home/wena/live/ directory or your mirror site at http://localhost/sid
>> > works or not... I do not know permision of all these either.
>>
>> /home/wena/live exists and that mirror pretty well and was created
>> using reprepro.
>
> When you have problem, do not assume thigs are in good shape. Are you
> sure to be "mirror pretty well"? reprepro being very new and
> experimental per its manpage. I do not know it is good choice.
> (Program should be fine but it may not document required options for
> novice users.)
>
>> I'm on Sid.
>
> OK
>
>> > My first suggestion is to put system back to default.
>>
>> I stripped pbuilderrc to:
>> MIRRORSITE=http://localhost/sid
>> DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap
>>
>> [note that cdebootstrap won't work since I don't have Release.gpg and
>> I don't know how to parse --allow-authenticated to it through
>> pbuilder]
>>
>> ...and am still getting the error above
>
> Bingo! ... you have broken mirror for current sid repo. Having
> Release.gpg is needed for current secure APT to function. reprepro can
> support signiture per its package description.
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#toplevelreleasefeandauthenticity
>
>> What's interesting is that both "debootstrap" and "cdebootstrap
>> --allow-unauthenticated" work pretty well.
>
> Of course, you are disabling secure apt feature which uses Release.gpg.
>
> If you are thinking about reducing bandwidth usage by the local mirror,
> I think http proxy is better approach. Mirroring tends to waste more BW
> by downloading unused contents.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#proxyserverforapt
>
> | Since mirroring whole subsection of Debian archive wastes disk space and
> | network bandwidth, deployment of a local proxy server for APT is
> | desirable consideration when you administer many systems on LAN. APT can
> | be configure to use web (http) proxy server such as squid (see Section
> | 7.5, "Other network application servers") as described in apt.conf(5)
> | and in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. The http_proxy
> | environment variable can be used to override proxy server setting in the
> | /etc/apt/apt.conf file.
>
> You may wish to learn basics of APT
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html
>
> Osamu
>
>
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