For some reason, I only saw this mail now. Thanks much for the mouthful: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > ... >> >> Running (c)debootstrap alone gives no problems so I don't know where >> >> to start diagnosing my problem. >> > >> > You are creating very special setting. I do not even know if you have >> > /home/wena/live/ directory or your mirror site at http://localhost/sid >> > works or not... I do not know permision of all these either. >> >> /home/wena/live exists and that mirror pretty well and was created >> using reprepro. > > When you have problem, do not assume thigs are in good shape. Are you > sure to be "mirror pretty well"? reprepro being very new and > experimental per its manpage. I do not know it is good choice. > (Program should be fine but it may not document required options for > novice users.) > >> I'm on Sid. > > OK > >> > My first suggestion is to put system back to default. >> >> I stripped pbuilderrc to: >> MIRRORSITE=http://localhost/sid >> DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap >> >> [note that cdebootstrap won't work since I don't have Release.gpg and >> I don't know how to parse --allow-authenticated to it through >> pbuilder] >> >> ...and am still getting the error above > > Bingo! ... you have broken mirror for current sid repo. Having > Release.gpg is needed for current secure APT to function. reprepro can > support signiture per its package description. > > http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#toplevelreleasefeandauthenticity > >> What's interesting is that both "debootstrap" and "cdebootstrap >> --allow-unauthenticated" work pretty well. > > Of course, you are disabling secure apt feature which uses Release.gpg. > > If you are thinking about reducing bandwidth usage by the local mirror, > I think http proxy is better approach. Mirroring tends to waste more BW > by downloading unused contents. > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#proxyserverforapt > > | Since mirroring whole subsection of Debian archive wastes disk space and > | network bandwidth, deployment of a local proxy server for APT is > | desirable consideration when you administer many systems on LAN. APT can > | be configure to use web (http) proxy server such as squid (see Section > | 7.5, "Other network application servers") as described in apt.conf(5) > | and in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. The http_proxy > | environment variable can be used to override proxy server setting in the > | /etc/apt/apt.conf file. > > You may wish to learn basics of APT > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html > > Osamu > >
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