Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/27/2019 10:46 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-27 17:23:17)
> > On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17)
> > > > > I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned.
> > > > > mmdebstrap apparently has the desired features of multistrap but
> > > > > is available only in Buster.
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not have the available bandwidth to install Buster. In
> > > > > Stretch perl is 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 but is 5.28.1-6 in Buster.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it feasible to run under Stretch? How?
> > > >
> > > > mmdebstrap has no tight dependencies so you should be able to
> > > > simply install the Buster package in Stretch and try use it.
> >
> > My command was:
> > mmdebstrap --variant=required stretch test1.tar
> > file:///media/richard/dvds/dvd1.iso
> >
> > The error received was:
> > > sh: 1: fakechroot: not found
> > > sh: 1: proot: not found
> > > E: unable to pick chroot mode automatically
> >
> > That was resolved by installing "fakechroot". I had read the man page
> > as implying the use of a tar file did not require it.
> >
> > That left me with the problem of telling the instance of apt being run
> > internally by mmdebstrap that dvd1.iso is trusted. I unsuccessfully
> > tried using the distribution DVD itself.
> >
> > What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive
> > {last resort} as my repository?
>
> mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you originally mentioned) are unrelated
> to dealing with ISO files.

You misunderstood.
debootstrap, multistrap, mmdebstrap and any future cousins require a 
repository of deb files.

apt and cousins can install from an unsigned repository by EXPLICITLY 
identifying it as "trusted". {see man page for sources.list}

By inference I only need the proper syntax to do same with mmdebstrap.

Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin:
> mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true" ...

I hesitate to try that on this machine.




> What do you expect to achieve by "investigating using multistrap" and
> mmdebstrap?
>
>   - Jonas