Re: debootstrap doesn't support fakeroot variant
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot:
>
> $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze
> debootstrap-squeeze-amd64
> E: unsupported variant
>
> This is exactly bug 319100[1] (2005), which is tagged as "fixed":
> - the error is the same,
> - the man page states:
>
> --variant=minbase|buildd|fakechroot|scratchbox
> [...]
>
> What should I do? Do I miss something? (fakeroot is installed)
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319100
It's "fakechroot" not "fakeroot".
Why are you using "sudo ..."? I would've thought (although I've only
used "minbase" and buildd" in the past) that you wouldn't need sudo
when using fakechroot.
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