On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > Wanting to work on the recent gcc-4.3 header FTBFS bugs, I tried to > install a sid cowbuilder in my home directory with the following > command: > > chouca〔~〕$ sudo cowbuilder --create --basepath cowbuilder.sid > > It ends with the following error message: > > P: Configuring package gnupg > P: Configuring package debian-archive-keyring > P: Configuring package apt > P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt > E: Couldn't install system due to errors! > pbuilder: cdebootstrap failed > -> Aborting with an error > pbuilder create failed
Try using DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap in your .pbuilderrc. [Though it seems to be a bug in cdebootstrap; probably #448210 or similar.] Don Armstrong -- Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
