Got it working with the aid of Wookey's config file. I generated my config file from a cut-n-paste from the multistrap man page. It turns out that multistrap _needs_ the 'aptsources' line to work properly. This statement is missing from the man page :(
# the order of sections is no longer important. # aptsources is a list of sections to be listed # in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list # of the target. aptsources=Grip Cheers, Brendan. Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:35:08 +1000 > Brendan Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > No need to CC: me, ta. > > >> My version of multistrap seems to ignore the debootstrap option. >> multistrap just uses the last settings in the config file. >> > > I suspect an error in the config file. Check against the working config > file mentioned by Wookey and/or post the complete config file. > > >> ii emdebian-rootf 1.9.0 emdebian root filesystem support >> > > Latest version is 2.0.2 > > >>> Dir::Cache=/home/brendan/emdebian/multistrap-nocleanup/var/cache/apt/ >>> install emdebian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree... Done >>> E: Couldn't find package emdebian-archive-keyring >>> >>>> Cannot open ~/emdebian/multistrap-nocleanup/var/lib/apt/lists/ >>>> directory. No such file or directory >>>> >>>> I figured it out. The 'directory' option can not have the tilde >>>> expansion in the path. It appears the directory must be absolute. >>>> Maybe relative paths are legal too, but common expansions don't seem to >>>> be expanded. A man page update me thinks :) >>>> > > OK, I'll add that to the manpage when I get back - please file a bug > report so that I don't forget. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
