Package: live-build Version: 1:20191221 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
If "lb build" runs in a shell where it cannot access the commands it needs, it terminates with a non-useful error message. In my case, the message said I needed to install debootstrap, when the real problem was a much broader issue with the shell environment. Specifically, I use live-build to build a system with somewhat different choice of packages than the official Debian Live releases. Meanwhile, on the system where I host live-build, I have been going back and forth between stretch and buster (or later releases of Debian) trying to isolate an unrelated bug. I was able to build the target live image I wanted with the host running stretch, and I expected to be able to do the same thing under buster or later. However, after upgrading to buster (or newer) "lb build" would exit prematurely with messages: [2020-04-22 13:51:36] lb bootstrap_debootstrap E: debootstrap - command not found I: debootstrap can be obtained from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/ I: On Debian based systems, debootstrap can be installed with 'apt-get install debootstrap'. These messages are not helpful, since debootstrap is correctly installed. I eventually figured out this was a problem with the host's $PATH environment variable. I was configuring the live system as normal user and then using su to run "lb build". Unfortunately, su sets $PATH differently between stretch and later releases of Debian. If I instead use "su -" with buster or later, then "lb build" results in a live image just like it did with stretch. Either "su" or "su -" works under stretch. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages live-build depends on: ii debootstrap 1.0.123 Versions of packages live-build recommends: ii apt-utils 2.0.2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-2 ii file 1:5.38-4 ii live-boot-doc 1:20190614 ii live-config-doc 11.0.1 ii live-manual-pdf [live-manual] 2:20151217.1 ii wget 1.20.3-1+b2 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages live-build suggests: ii e2fsprogs 1.45.6-1 pn mtd-utils <none> ii parted 3.3-4 -- no debconf information
