Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Jeffrey Walton  [2016-07-31 11:42]:
> Primarily because its a port: https://www.debian.org/ports/ and
> https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ .
> 
> Other, lesser reasons include there's no documentation (follow the
> links above), and using non-port procedures fails sooner than the
> ports procedure:

ports.debian.org is for ports that are not officially part of Debian.
I realize this isn't obvious.

> I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
> --exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel http://ftp.debian.org/

You have to use http://ftp.debian.org/debian

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

[Jeffrey Walton]

>>Results from host computer:
>>
>>I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
>>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
>>--exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel
>>http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
>>I: Retrieving Release
>>I: Retrieving Release.gpg
>>I: Checking Release signature
>>I: Valid Release signature (key id 69DDB0560EA86E87E83599B3B4C86482705A2CE1)
>>E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages
>
> Why are you trying to use debian-ports for armel? armel is a standard
> Debian release architecture...

Primarily because its a port: https://www.debian.org/ports/ and
https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ .

Other, lesser reasons include there's no documentation (follow the
links above), and using non-port procedures fails sooner than the
ports procedure:

I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
--exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel http://ftp.debian.org/
I: Retrieving Release
E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/Release

I would be awesome if someone would clearly document the procedure.

Jeff

Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 09:42:23AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>Package: debootstrap
>Version: 1.0.81
>Severity: important
>
>The host computer is running Debian Sid, fully patched.
>
>Results from host computer:
>
>I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
>--exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel
>http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
>I: Retrieving Release
>I: Retrieving Release.gpg
>I: Checking Release signature
>I: Valid Release signature (key id 69DDB0560EA86E87E83599B3B4C86482705A2CE1)
>E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

Why are you trying to use debian-ports for armel? armel is a standard
Debian release architecture...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

[Jeffrey Walton]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.81
Severity: important

The host computer is running Debian Sid, fully patched.

Results from host computer:

I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd
--exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 69DDB0560EA86E87E83599B3B4C86482705A2CE1)
E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

sources.list from host computer:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib
# deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/updates main contrib

# deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid-updates main
# deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main

debootstrap from host computer:

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.81
Installed-Size: 249
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team 
Architecture: all
Depends: wget
Recommends: gnupg, debian-archive-keyring
Description-en: Bootstrap a basic Debian system
 debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch,
 without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by
 downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them
 into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into.
Description-md5: 883a8efb3ed16248b0d2091d9c0b60c9
Tag: admin::virtualization, devel::debian, implemented-in::shell,
 interface::commandline, protocol::http, role::program, scope::utility,
 suite::debian, works-with-format::tar, works-with::software:package
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.81_all.deb
Size: 65524
MD5sum: 1e445b445adb9316a62b2fc1981c10a4
SHA256: 688fbb3f414778437fe81f776dff15eaa797428f9dd99efe9cfa23eab7a38780