Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.8 Severity: important
Some of the variants fail when run using sudo, instead of when logged in as root. In particular, buildd and the standard install will fail, while minbase will succeed. $ sudo debootstrap --arch=i386 --variant=buildd --include=sudo,locales,less sid sid-build-ia32 http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Found additional base dependencies: bzip2 cpp-4.2 debian-archive-keyring g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 gnupg gpgv libbz2-1.0 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libldap-2.4-2 libopencdk10 libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev libtasn1-3 libtimedate-perl libusb-0.1-4 linux-libc-dev lzma readline-common I: Checking component main on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian... [snip] I: Configuring libopencdk10... I: Configuring libgnutls26... I: Configuring libldap-2.4-2... I: Configuring gnupg... I: Configuring debian-archive-keyring... I: Configuring apt... I: Configuring g++-4.2... I: Configuring g++... I: Configuring libstdc++6-4.2-dev... W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. Note that if the user is root, rather than a mortal using sudo, the same commands succeed. This obviously shouldn't be the case. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4+b1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii wget 1.11.1-1 retrieves files from the web debootstrap recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]