> "target" is explaned in debootstrap's manual page, in the very first
> line of the description.
With all respect, it isn't described with "debootstrap -h". Not every system
with debootstrap installed has the man page installed. So my suggestion is
only that "debootstrap -h" clarify the language,
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:52:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> It can't be the "target" of debootstrap, since debootstrap is already
> running in it. Think of it (the host, Centos) as the hand which is
> holding the dart (debootstrap) to the target (the actual machine running
> the just-instal
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:13:31PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Also note "target" is an ambiguous term - the target in normal English is
> > the existing object which receives the new thing
>
> That is the meaning here: on which machine you will run the installed
> debian system.
Ah, but w
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:34:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> --arch is the target architecture, not the current architecture. It
> needs the latter to know how to deal with some details. debootstrap
> should probably resort to uname in such case.
Note in the default case (if I understand c
Just to verify my memory, I checked the history, and all test invocations
indeed were:
/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 squeeze /mnt/deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
(aside from also trying "--arch amd64")
Sorry again for the stray "/" in the report.
Whit
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ious "/". Sorry that confused the
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:06:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Whit Blauvelt, le Wed 10 Aug 2011 12:19:36 -0400, a écrit :
> > # /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 squeeze /mnt/deb
> > /http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
>
Please discard this. Resent to the original bug report. Didn't know how your
system worked.
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Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.35
Follow up on the report I just submitted.
> # /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 squeeze /mnt/deb
> /http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
> E: Couldn't work out current architecture
Note that kludging the debootstrap script at line 402 as follows:
else
# e
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.35
debootstrap was install per the manual install method in section "D.3.2.
Install debootstrap" of
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en
The result:
# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 squeeze /mnt/deb
/http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
E: C
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