Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.1.7 Actually, it might not be debootstrap itself, but the package collection on the mirror. When I run:
DIR="/dm" DIST="etch" MIRROR="http://http.us.debian.org" rm -rf $DIR mkdir $DIR debootstrap $DIST $DIR $MIRROR/debian then it fails. The output is: I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Checking component main on http://http.us.debian.org/debian E: Couldn't find these debs: libsigc++-1.2-5c102 If I try with the sarge distribution, it completes with no problems. The error was not there yesterday, that's why I suspect that it is related to the packages on the mirror.

