Create a Local Mirror - 2

Sune Rastad Bahn srb at dmi.dk
Mon Dec 23 10:13:56 CET 2002


d. Monday den 23. December 2002 00:36 skrev du:
> Thanks very much to everyone who responded to my plea for help in creating
> a local mirror for use by fai, either from files generated by apt-move or
> from the installation CDs. I did manage to set up the server, I think;
> that is as far as I have gotten. But some problems came up, which make me
> wonder whether I got it exactly right.
>
> 1. debootstrap failed using the apt-move mirror. I used Paul Nijjar's
> script to make MD5sum lines (mkMD5Release.new from
> wclp-0.5-installer.tar.gz at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/wclp). It
> did the job, once I discovered that I had to add a line "md5sum" between
> the head and the md5sum lines. But then the process stopped with the
> following messages:
>
> W: file:/mirrors/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz was
> corrupt I: Retrieving file:/mirrors/debian/dists/woody/Packages
> E: Couldn't download adduser
> chroot: cannot execute apt-get: no such file or directory
>
> Thanks to my mediocre knowledge of bash, I could not understand the scripts
> used in debootstrap. I did confirm that adduser is in the mirror, and the
> mirror works fine with apt-get. So I gave up trying to use the apt-move
> mirror.

I suspect this might be a problem with the mirror/debootstrap. At least, we 
have the exact same problem on a setup which used to work. Anybody else
have that problem when debootstraping from a recent mirror?

Merry Christmas,
Sune



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