Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-23 09:02:43) > Though I have no idea what needed to be fixed in debconf or what is the > actual cause of it: Reading dpkgs log (and even stracing into it), it does > not seem that it had touched debconf beside reading its control file? The problem with debconf is, tha

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-23 09:15:30) > > But even if support was there, what you try to do above would not work > > because currently one cannot pass any other configuration than the one in > > /etc/dpkg to dpkg. Since in chrootless mode, we never "chroot", dpkg will > > always use the s

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:08:39AM +0100 schrieb Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: > Hi, > > Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-22 09:04:41) > > I was playing with mmdebstrap to see if I could bootstrap a system even > > without dpkg, > > suitable for some embedded device… However, I could not get >

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 02:48:27PM +0100 schrieb Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: > Hi, > > let me first reply to this, then to your initial bug. > > (...) > > Yes, debconf is one of the big blockers for chrootless working well for a > larger set of packages. Also see this: > > https://wiki.d

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-22 09:04:41) > I was playing with mmdebstrap to see if I could bootstrap a system even > without dpkg, > suitable for some embedded device… However, I could not get --mode=chrootless > to work: > > I'm not sure if this is PEBKAC or a bug… If the former, I'd app

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, let me first reply to this, then to your initial bug. Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-22 09:50:35) > Update: > It seems that mmdebstrap just fails to create the directory: > When creating it beforehand and --skip=check/empty, I get progress. > > root@isildor:~/mm# rm -rf target3 > root@isildo

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.7.5-2 Followup-For: Bug #983301 Update: It seems that mmdebstrap just fails to create the directory: When creating it beforehand and --skip=check/empty, I get progress. root@isildor:~/mm# rm -rf target3 root@isildor:~/mm# mkdir -p target3/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/ mmde

Bug#983301: mmdebstrap: --mode=chrootless fails with E: cannot open /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap

2021-02-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.7.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was playing with mmdebstrap to see if I could bootstrap a system even without dpkg, suitable for some embedded device… However, I could not get --mode=chrootless to work: I'm not sure if this is PEBKAC or a bug… If the fo