Package: debootstrap Version: 1.10.28 (i386) i use gentoo: diablo debian # uname -a Linux diablo 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 #1 Sun Sep 11 23:12:39 CEST 2005 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux and i would testing a migration with debootstrap. but it fails every time. diablo debian # debootstrap --arch i386 sarge /mnt/debian http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Checking component main on http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian... I: Extracting base-files... I: Extracting base-passwd... I: Extracting bash... I: Extracting bsdutils... I: Extracting coreutils... I: Extracting debconf... I: Extracting debconf-i18n... I: Extracting debianutils... I: Extracting diff... I: Extracting dpkg... I: Extracting dselect... I: Extracting e2fslibs... I: Extracting e2fsprogs... I: Extracting findutils... I: Extracting gcc-3.3-base... I: Extracting grep... I: Extracting gzip... I: Extracting hostname... I: Extracting initscripts... I: Extracting libacl1... I: Extracting libattr1... I: Extracting libblkid1... I: Extracting libc6... I: Extracting libcap1... I: Extracting libcomerr2... I: Extracting libdb1-compat... I: Extracting libdb3... I: Extracting libgcc1... I: Extracting liblocale-gettext-perl... I: Extracting libncurses5... I: Extracting libnewt0.51... I: Extracting libpam-modules... I: Extracting libpam-runtime... I: Extracting libpam0g... I: Extracting libpopt0... I: Extracting libss2... I: Extracting libstdc++5... I: Extracting libtext-charwidth-perl... I: Extracting libtext-wrapi18n-perl... I: Extracting libuuid1... I: Extracting login... I: Extracting makedev... I: Extracting mawk... I: Extracting modutils... I: Extracting mount... I: Extracting ncurses-base... I: Extracting ncurses-bin... I: Extracting passwd... I: Extracting perl-base... I: Extracting procps... I: Extracting sed... I: Extracting slang1a-utf8... I: Extracting sysv-rc... I: Extracting sysvinit... I: Extracting tar... I: Extracting util-linux... I: Extracting whiptail... I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /mnt/debian dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1.2_i386.deb var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.9_i386.deb debootstrap.log ... tar: current './usr/' newer. tar: current './usr/bin/' newer. tar: current './usr/share/' newer. tar: current './usr/share/doc/' newer. tar: current './usr/share/man/' newer. tar: current './usr/share/man/man1/' newer. tar: 6 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 61440 bytes = 60.00k). chown: `0.0' syntax is obsolete; use `:' since this will be removed in the future tar: 2 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 20480 bytes = 20.00k). dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2 package `dpkg': error in Version string `': version string is empty |

