Re: Trying to piece together a procedure that works : debootstrap and gpg keys?

> On Sep 23, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/23/25 04:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 03:57 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>> Not sure what kind of host system you're doing this on
>>> 
>>> wheezy.
>> Well, that information is necessary.
>>>>> So tomorrow is another day.
>>>> 
>>>> Try:
>>>> 
>>>> # wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
>>>> # dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb
>>>> 
> ...
>> Just pass "--no-check-gpg" to debootstrap then to skip GPG verification.
> 
> The debootstrap seems to work and then produced nothing useful.
> 
> At the very least it is a file system with nothing in it that
> I could do a chroot with. There are a pile of deb packages in
> a directory structure but nothing else.
> 
> Feels like this machine will go to Gentoo again and the new S7-2 will
> try Debian. I can coordinate with Tony Rodriguez with regards to the
> modern S7-2 because he has that working.

debootstrap definitely works. But unless you provide the debootstrap.log file, I cannot tell you what’s wrong.

Adrian