On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 09:06:12AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote... > > > debootstrap currently only supports a single mirror. For testing > > initial install scenarios with modified packages, it would help greatly > > to have support for an additional mirror, to allow pointing at a Debian > > mirror for the majority of packages and a local mirror for a few > > modified packages. > > Same here, but after some poking in the sources it seems it's not that > simple to achieve. > > At least for me however it was good enough if I could provide some > Debian packages by filename or URL on debootstrap's command line, > somewhat similar to the --extra-package option of sbuild. These packaged > would be installed unconditionally, possibly overriding any package > found on the provided mirror. However, validation of any signatures does > not take place.
I'd certainly find that helpful, though not a substitute for having an additional mirror with full verification.