Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/28/19 11:56 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > How about the following instead: that's even better, thank you very much ;) Regards, Daniel

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Daniel Baumann (2019-02-28 10:28:19) > > You could also test if disabling the apt sandboxing feature fixes the > > problem for you by adding the following option to mmdebstrap: > > > > --aptopt='APT::Sandbox::User "root"' > so technically this isn't a bug in mmdebstrap, may I suggest to

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/28/19 8:42 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > You probably have the permissions of /root set up such that it's non-readable > by any non-root user? correct! I have /root with 0700, I can confirm that changing that to 0755 fixes it (or doing it anywhere else on the FS where the directory is 0755).

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Daniel, after staring at the log output for a while longer, I now have a theory: Quoting Johannes Schauer (2019-02-28 00:11:42) > > Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease [242 kB] > > Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages [8366 kB] > > Fetched 8608 kB in 2s

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Daniel, Quoting Daniel Baumann (2019-02-27 05:18:53) > with previous version of mmdebstrap, I used to do: > > sudo mmdebstrap sid sid http://deb.debian.org/debian > > which then automatically uses 'root mode'. > > Now I get this instead: > > ---snip--- > I: automatically chosen mode:

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/27/19 9:44 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > perhaps this is not specific to mmdebstrap but is tied to > apt or dpkg, especially the latter seeing major changes recently. Interestingly, using --mode=fakechroot works for sid whereas --mode=root fails (buster fails with fakechroot because of

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Daniel Baumann (2019-02-27 05:18:53) > with previous version of mmdebstrap, I used to do: > > sudo mmdebstrap sid sid http://deb.debian.org/debian > > which then automatically uses 'root mode'. > > Now I get this instead: > > ---snip--- > I: automatically chosen mode: root > I:

Bug#923374: root mode doesn't work anymore?

2019-02-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.4.0-1 Hi, with previous version of mmdebstrap, I used to do: sudo mmdebstrap sid sid http://deb.debian.org/debian which then automatically uses 'root mode'. Now I get this instead: ---snip--- I: automatically chosen mode: root I: chroot architecture amd64 is