Hi, I just read the ongoing discussion on sparc64 chroots ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/09/msg00015.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/09/msg00016.html)
Perhaps my debootstrap script https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2014/06/msg00012.html may help in this regard. It was tested only on alpha so far (and hppa where it is irrelevant) and I would be thankful for test reports on other architectures. It basically amounts to download and uncompress the script 'debian-ports.gz'. Then (let's suppose you are running a sparc64 machine) : wget -O - http://ftp.debian-ports.org/archive/archive_2015.key \ | gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring=./my_keyring --import debootstrap --keyring=./my_keyring --variant=buildd unstable \ sid-sparc64-sbuild ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian ./debian-ports If it works - there remains the update of /etc/apt/sources.list as Adrian explained. I hope it helps ! Regards, JH Chatenet P-S : It seems that the package libaudit1 currently causes the installation to fail - it is perhaps advisable to wait for a newer version. .....The following dependency problems occur : required package libaudit1(1:2.4.4-3) : unmet dependency libaudit-common (>= 1:2.4.4-3) - libaudit-common (1:2.4.4-2) will be installed
