On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 07:54:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I always use: > > $ debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=sparc64 --variant=buildd sid > sid-sparc64-sbuild http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports > > You can use a different variant for your usecase, of course or just omit > this parameter.
Okay. I tried that command, with sudo and without a --variant or --arch, and got the same failure as earlier: % sudo debootstrap --no-check-gpg sid /z http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports I: Target architecture can be executed E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-sparc64/Packages And James Clarke wrote: > The second command should work. Do you have gunzip or unxz in your PATH? You > need one of them for debootstrap to let you use that Packages.?? file, and > there's no uncompressed version. I have both gunzip and unxz in my path. It's not running it as root with sudo that's the problem, I assume. Other than that, Adrian, I think I'm doing the same as you but it's not working. - Chris