Re: Trouble with multistrap and even apt-get

2018-08-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 02:50:14PM -0700, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > What I really want is for this to work (it works without the --source-dir): > > mkdir packages && multistrap -f /usr/share/multistrap/stretch.conf -d > ./chroot --source-dir ./packages

Trouble with multistrap and even apt-get

2018-08-01 Thread Tabor Kelly
Hello, What I really want is for this to work (it works without the --source-dir): mkdir packages && multistrap -f /usr/share/multistrap/stretch.conf -d ./chroot --source-dir ./packages > multistrap_log.txt 2>&1 However, apt-get fails to find the source packages, but I can&#

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/01/15 15:55, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2015 15:25:02 Joel Rees wrote: stupid questions It has been said that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. The only stupid questions are rhetorical questions whose accurate answers are inconvenient to the questioner,

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
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Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Joel Rees wrote: 2015/01/09 6:40 "Cindy-Sue Causey" : [...] As an aside and yet really directly related, my complaints and observations a while back about the seeming uptick in people having trouble with incompatibility became more clear in the last few weeks. There's some what *FEELS LIKE* ba

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 1/8/15, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my backg

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-09 Thread Joel Rees
2015/01/09 6:40 "Cindy-Sue Causey" : > > [...] > > As an aside and yet really directly related, my complaints and > observations a while back about the seeming uptick in people having > trouble with incompatibility became more clear in the last few weeks. > There's some what *FEELS LIKE* bad advice

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/8/15, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. > It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. > While researching that I came across multistrap. > > The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in > my ba

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 14:18:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. > It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. > While researching that I came across multistrap. > > The man pages and tutorials I've found so f

_COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap &/or multistrap

2015-01-08 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my background. The material I'm looking for would likely have be

Debootstrap and Multistrap - instructional material?

2014-11-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. My initial attempts were only a partial success. While searching for more information I came across multistrap which appears more suitable for me. The man pages and tutorials I've found s

Problems with first attempt to use multistrap

2014-09-02 Thread Richard Owlett
mentioned only in passing, I came across https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap whose first sentence states: Multistrap is a tool that does essentially the same job as debootstrap, using an entirely different method, and then extends the functionality to support automated creation of

Current references for debootstrap and multistrap ?

2014-08-25 Thread Richard Owlett
It has been suggested to me that I should investigate bootstrap for for my atypical requirements. While reading, I came across multistrap which may be a better match to some of my longer term objectives. Environment: A laptop dedicated to experiments (I routinely completely erase the whole

multistrap

2014-01-17 Thread shawn wilson
ecise it 'works' but doesn't install libterm-readline-perl-perl which is found in the repos I have defined on this box which means that: dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive -a errors. (IIRC, this works with Debian's sources which is why I'm specifically asking about multistra