Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.1.6 Severity: normal Trying to cross-strap a mipsel system, I ran this command on my laptop:
debootstrap --resolve-deps --arch mipsel --foreign sid sid http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian Then I copied that tree over to a mipsel machine, chrooted into it, and ran /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage, which failed with the error in the Subject. if [ "${from#null:}" != "$from" ]; then error 1 NOTPREDL "%s was not pre-downloaded" "${from#null:}" Seems to me that since MIRRORS is set to "null:" in --second-stage mode, the above test will always succeed in second-stage, and debootstrap will always error out. FWIW, /var/lib/apt/lists was empty except for the debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_Release file. I worked around this by editing /debootstrap/debootstrap and setting MIRRORS to a real working url. Then it worked, although not cleanly: I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# /debootstrap/debootstrap --arch mipsel --second-stage I: Retrieving Packages I: Retrieving Packages /debootstrap/functions: line 837: //var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_main_binary-mipsel_Packages: No such file or directory /debootstrap/functions: line 837: //var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_main_binary-mipsel_Packages: No such file or directory I: Installing core packages... I: Unpacking required packages... I: Unpacking base-files... I: Unpacking base-passwd... I: Unpacking bash... I: Unpacking bsdutils... I: Unpacking coreutils... etc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20050902-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii wget 1.10.1-1 retrieves files from the web debootstrap recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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