On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:47:15PM +0200, parazyd wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> > > Perhaps my problem was that I unpacked the devuan.debian.tar.gz archive
> > > on the target /mnt/debinist/usr/share. If instead I run
> > >
> > > # dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.75-1+devuan1_all.deb
> > >
> > > I fear it will overwrite the debootstrap on my current Wheezy Debian
> > > system and break it.
> >
> > The debootstrap from devuan is safe to install. It differs only in
> > having a few bugfixes. Besides, you can always grab the package from
> > wheezy and overwrite.
>
> Again, please excuse my ignorance. You appear to say that I can use dpkg
> to install the dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.75-1+devuan1_all.deb on my
> running Wheezy system, for it is essentially the same. But when I do
> that and run:
>

>   # debootstrap -no-check-gpg jessie /mnt/debinst/   \
>     http://packages.devuan.org/merged
>   E: No such script: http://packages.devuan.org/merged

>
> > Anyway, sorry if there is too much 'tech talk'. Try looking at this
> > forum thread:
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-to-install-debian-using-debootstrap-4175465295/
>
> Yes, thanks. What confused me was that when I did cross installation in
> years past, there were no stages to worry about. But the immediate
> problem is that I can't even get started with the above command.
>

"-no-check-gpg" should be "--no-check-gpg"

What if you do this?

    # debootstrap --no-check-gpg --foreign --arch [architecture] jessie \
        /mnt/debinst http://packages.devuan.org/merged

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