On 02/05/15 08:05, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> I downloaded debootstrap's source from:
> https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/debootstrap and built a .deb
> package on Debian Testing. Then, I used the freshly installed
> debootstrap to install Devuan as follows:
>
> # debootstrap --arch amd64 jessie /mnt/sda8 http://packages.devuan.org/devuan
> W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available
> /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-keyring.gpg
> I: Retrieving Release
> I: Validating Packages
> I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
> I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
> I: Checking component main on http://packages.devuan.org/devuan...
> E: Couldn't find these debs: sysvinit-core
>
> Any hints as to what I should do, are most welcome.
>
> Thanks.
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Tested again just now. Same here with similar command (can use only i386
here). However:

debootstrap --arch i386 --exclude systemd,systemd-sysv,libsystemd0
jessie my/bootstrap/dir/

(no url specified) the bootstrap completes without errors.

Is there something wrong with how it parses a specified URL?

Note I already discovered, the "excudes" are (at the moment) still
needed. The debian mainstream version doesn't seem to allow that.