Thank you very much.... Don't I feel like a freak'ing asshole....
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System
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> #837048: QEMU chroot broken
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> It has been closed by Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi>.
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> From: Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi>
> To: noloa...@gmail.com, 837048-d...@bugs.debian.org
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> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:39:01 +0000
> Subject: Re: Bug#837048: QEMU chroot broken
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 05:19:44AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> I'm fairly certain nearly all of Debian's chroots are broken. I think
>> the X32 chroot is the only one that actually works.
>
> ...
>
>> debian-8-x64-vm:~# chmod debian-armel
>> chmod: missing operand after ‘debian-armel’
>> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
>>
>> debian-8-x64-vm:~# SHELL=sh chmod debian-armel
>> chmod: missing operand after ‘debian-armel’
>> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
>
> Try using "chroot" instead of chmod if you intend
> to chroot.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>
> To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 05:19:44 -0400
> Subject: QEMU chroot broken
> Package: qemu
> Version: 1:2.6+dfsg-3
> Severity: Important
>
> I'm fairly certain nearly all of Debian's chroots are broken. I think
> the X32 chroot is the only one that actually works.
>
> The broken QEMU chroots coupled with lack of documentation really
> hinders our ability to do our job. Here, our job is to ensure our
> project works under Debian so Debian users do not experience troubles.
> Its mostly become a waste of our time to try to use them or submit
> bugs for them since nothing seems to get fixed.
>
> Perhaps Debian should try to automate some testing against its QEMU
> chroots so it discovers its breaks.
>
> $ cat debian-armel-chroot.txt
>
> # qemu-debootstrap --arch=armel --keyring
> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \
>> --variant=buildd --exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel
>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> 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/debian
> I: Retrieving Release
> I: Retrieving Release.gpg
> I: Checking Release signature
> I: Valid Release signature (key id 126C0D24BD8A2942CC7DF8AC7638D0442B90D010)
> I: Retrieving Packages
> ...
> I: Extracting mount...
> I: Extracting util-linux...
> I: Extracting liblzma5...
> I: Extracting zlib1g...
> I: Running command: chroot debian-armel /debootstrap/debootstrap
> --second-stage
> I: Keyring file not available at
> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https
> mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
> I: Installing core packages...
> I: Unpacking required packages...
> I: Unpacking libacl1:armel...
> I: Unpacking libattr1:armel...
> I: Unpacking libaudit-common...
> I: Unpacking libaudit1:armel...
> ...
> I: Configuring g++...
> I: Configuring build-essential...
> I: Configuring libc-bin...
> I: Base system installed successfully.
>
> debian-8-x64-vm:~# chmod debian-armel
> chmod: missing operand after ‘debian-armel’
> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
>
> debian-8-x64-vm:~# SHELL=sh chmod debian-armel
> chmod: missing operand after ‘debian-armel’
> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
>
> **********
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
> Release: unstable
> Codename: sid
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux debian-8-x64-vm 4.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.2-1 (2016-08-28)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
