Re: debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, your finding that packages from both unstable and unreleased are needed is correct (along with the complication that some may not be availabe at any given time). For m68k, Thosten Glaser is perhaps the most experienced in dealing with bootstrapping an install. Cheers, Michael

Re: debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Schmitz dixit: your finding that packages from both unstable and unreleased are needed is correct (along with the complication that some may not be availabe at any given time). There’s another problem: even in the main Debian archive, “unstable” is *not* guaranteed to be

debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Installation may fail because of missing dependencies. A consistent state of the archive (i.e. all required and important packages are compatible, and all their recursive dependencies are built and available) is needed for success - a condition less frequently fulfilled than in the main Debian

Re: debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
jhcha54008 dixit: Custom mini-repositories for installation - One may download the missing packages from http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports. Indeed, but – as I said – the regular debian-ports archive is also weekly snapshotted, and Aurélien

Re: debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Thank you for your answer Le mercredi 18 décembre à 17h 26mn 40s (+), Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Michael Schmitz dixit: your finding that packages from both unstable and unreleased are needed is correct (along with the complication that some may not be availabe at any given time).

typo (was Re: debootstrap and debian-ports)

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Sorry, debian-ports archive key is http://ftp.debian-ports.org/archive/archive_2013.key and debian snapshots are http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/ (note the final /) J.-H. Chatenet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of