Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: The command I use is pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --basetgz base.tgz I do not know how it translats in term of debootstrap. That's not even very relevant. Just try creating a standard chroot: # debootstrap sid target

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-09-08 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Frans Pop a écrit : On Thursday 27 August 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: However, I've repreatedly been unable to use debootstrap to create a new base.tgz. There's always a package I cannot download. For instance, here, it's cpio. Are you using debootstrap or cdebootstrap? The second is

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-09-08 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Frans Pop a écrit : - unreliable mirror: try using a different one I: Checking component main on http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian... Eh, if you're using the default Japanese mirror I'm not surprised you see download issues. OK, this was the problem. It's now solved. How do you change

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-09-07 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
All apologies for the late reply. I've been busy elsewhere. Frans Pop a écrit : On Thursday 27 August 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate mailing list if necessary. I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding

problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-08-27 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Hello. I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate mailing list if necessary. I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the R interpreter API. However, I've repreatedly been unable to use debootstrap to create a new base.tgz. There's

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate mailing list if necessary. I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the R interpreter API. However, I've repreatedly been unable to use