debootstrap (and gnuab)

[Guillem Jover]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:51:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > I gave a try at porting debootstrap, but it seems it won't run far since
> > ftp.gnuab.org has some missing files:
> >
> > $ sudo debootstrap sid ./jail http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian
> > I: Retrieving debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_Release
> > E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
> >
> > Anyone knows what is dists/sid/Release?
> 
> It's (obviously) a file which debootstrap needs :-)
> 
> Take a look at any of the Release files at ftp.debian.org. Those are
> files containing md5sums of compressed and uncompressed Packages files.
> 
> Don't know the official way to create them, but they should be easy to
> generate with a little of scripting. Guillem?

Yeah, sure. Something like:

	apt-ftparchive release path

But that's only on sarge, sid apt package. I'll take a look at using a
backport there and place that into mini-dak.

regards,
guillem