+++ RichardBown [2014-05-19 23:01 +0100]: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 16:56:06 -0400 > "Lennart Sorensen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:47:32PM +0100, RichardBown wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:14:13 -0400 > > > "Lennart Sorensen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > <huge chop to save space> > > > > > > Hi Len > > > It must be just a stupid pogoplug, > > > I changed to the main US mirror, and got this:- > > > > > > I: Retrieving xz-utils > > > W: Retrying failed download of > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2_armel.deb ... > > > I: Validating xz-utils W: > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2_armel.deb > > > was corrupt W: Couldn't download package xz-utils I: Retrieving > > > zlib1g W: Retrying failed download of > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.7.dfsg-13_armel.deb ... > > > I: Validating zlib1g W: > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.7.dfsg-13_armel.deb > > > was corrupt W: Couldn't download package zlib1g I: Chosen extractor > > > for .deb packages: ar W: Failure trying to run: chroot /tmp/debian > > > mount -t proc proc /proc debootstrap failed. > > > See /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for more information. > > > > > > So I double checked the site address, and then copied and pasted the > > > url from the line and ran wget manually > > > Pogoplug:/tmp$ wget > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2_armel.deb > > > Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (128.30.2.36:80) > > > xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+ 100% > > > |****************************************************************************| > > > 233k 00:00:00 ETA Pogoplug:/tmp$ > > > > > > So definitely something in debootstrap 1.0.48 thats broken for > > > pogopigs.
> But if I can cut and paste from one of the lines which failed with > debootstap and then down load the same file with success with wget, > that point to one thing and one thing only > deboostrap. > its at the point where it determines the arch of the system in use, and > fail with a pogoplug , as it uses dpkg, and dpkg is not in the pogoplug > busybox. So you are running on a busybox system? Trying to debootstrap debian? (Sorry I've not followed all this in much detail) I've had trouble like this where busybox had it's own version of dpkg-deb which was just about sufficient to unpack a deb but was a very minimalist implemntation so failed to work with the options deboostrap used. (dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile) If dpkg-deb is not present then it just uses 'ar' which will work fine. I wonder if you are running into a similar problem? (see if you have a dpkg-deb in your busybox - if you do you'll need to fix /usr/share/debootstrap/functions to remove 'dpkg-deb' from theEXTRACTORS_SUPPORTED variable). downloading happens in the just_get function. I see there is an option to pre-download all the debs - that might be helpful.(set the URL to null: instead of http://) debootrstrp itself uses wget to do the downloads, so if it works for you manually then the question is why isn't it working in the script? I'd try turning on -x in /usr/sbin/debootstrap and/or /usr/share/debootstrap/functions and see what commands are actually being issued. That should let you see what's breaking. > So it doesn't know what its downloading for, so everything will seem > corrupted. > I guess I could start debootstrap with the arch switch set for armel, > but I should have to edit a package, and then there is the problem > of downloading the package, editing, then unloading to my web site so I > cam use wget to load it on the pogoplug. It looks like it is (trying to) download armel already so I don't follow you here. > I dont know about other armel devices, but if some developer hadn't > decided that the load to usb stick installer would no longer be > available for armel, still available for armhf. > > As far as the pogoplug and anything else that uses the same version of > Busybox DEBOOTSTRAP IS BROKEN. debootstrap goes to a lot of trouble to try and run in 'any old' environment, but this can go wrong, as I described above. It's also not very well tested as it usually is used on debian systems. If you can work out what's wrong and submit a fix or bugrep it's quite like to improve this for those that follow. > Shame, I prefer debian to arch linux as pacman is a PITA so is the > netctl implementation, but I'm stuck with it as their install method > is to load a tar ball and install the base system from that. > > Just the thing that Debian scrapped for ARMEL. > Could raise it as a bug, but it wont get fixed. You can make the armel image on another machine - you don;t have to do it on the pogoplug. Use debootstrap --arch=armel --foreign Then copy the image that makes onto the pogoplug and run deboostrap --second-stage (to do the unpacking and installing and configuring) That might well work a lot better. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
