[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#806820: Bug#806820: vmdebootstrap: --apt-mirror not working

[Neil Williams]

tag 806820 + moreinfo
thanks

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:29:08 +0100
Christoph Egger <christoph at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: vmdebootstrap
> Version: 1.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm running vmdebootstrap with
> 
>   vmdebootstrap --mirror http://localhost:3142/debian/ --apt-mirror
> http://ftp.fau.de/debian/ [..]

It might not be clear in the manpage but --configure-apt must be used
for --apt-mirror to be useful. Without --configure-apt, you're left
with whatever debootstrap provides.

> Manpage indicates this is exactly what apt-mirror is for:
> 
>           --apt-mirror
>                  Use the specified mirror inside the image instead of
> the mirror used to build the image. This is useful if you have a
> local mirror to make building the image quicker but the image needs
> to run even if that mirror is not available.

Please re-test with the --configure-apt option and the manpage & the
option parser can be updated. It should be clearer.

-- 


Neil Williams
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