Hi Brian and Colin: On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:04:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:48:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can use the pbuilder package to set yourself up an unstable chroot, > > > or, if you want to roll your own, see: > > > > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot-debian > > > > > > (That page has a typo: "debootstrap woody" should be "debootstrap sid", > > > I think. Osamu?)
Yes. I still think so. > > I don't think woody's debootstrap will work directly for sid chroots, so > > you need to setup a woody one and upgrade it to sid. (I am not subscribed now) I just installed debootstrap into my woody chroot :-) "debootstrap sid" works but it does not work perfectly as I wished. When I did "debootstrap sid": ... I: Retrieving http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb I: Validating //sid/var/cache/apt/archives/libncurses5_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb E: Couldn't download libnewt0 > Ah. A fair point ... In woody version, "sid" is symlinked to "woody" in /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/. So command line "debootstrap sid" should work sort of OK. But selected base and required package does not contain new things such as coreutils. This is more of a bug inherent to the fact no one can predict future. Unless Debian change its stable package upgrade criteria, this type of bug will stay on the system. I will think about it how to fix this situation. Partial upgrade of debootstrap to unstable seems to be the only option to get this working... Osamu
