On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > Teemu Ikonen dixit: >>IMHO one should be able to create pbuilder roots at any time, hence severity >>important. Not sure if the bug is in the archive or in pbuilder though. > > It’s well known that debootstrap does not handle that. I think, in your > case, even though the error message occurs after the debootstrap part, > the problem lies with it. Tentatively reassigning. (Yes, it’s a PITA.) > > That being said, it is NOT possible to create a _sid_ chroot at any > given time, by design. You ought to be able to create a _testing_ > chroot at _almost_ any given time, then upgrade from there, though.
Thanks for the hint. Today creating a sid chroot worked fine, so apparently the transition is done. When I had the problem, I also tried running debootstrap by itself and it seemed to work fine, i.e. no error messages were shown. I did not test the resulting root fs though. Best, Teemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
