On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:48:37AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > 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: > > > 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.
It'll work if you hack it heavily, but it's definitely unsupported, and I think anyone who works on debootstrap will tell you that too. I'm now convinced that my original bug report was wrong (I do change my mind occasionally :)). > 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... You could compile the unstable version from source on woody fairly easily, yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
