[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#811464: vmdebootstrap: fails to download packages

[Matt Taggart]

Package: vmdebootstrap
Version: 1.2-1~bpo8+1

When attempting to run the jessie backport, vmdebootstrap fails to download 
some packages:

# vmdebootstrap --image=./foo.img --size=100000000 \
 --mirror=http://mirror.lan:9999/debian --hostname foo \
 --log /tmp/vmdeb.log --verbose
[output trimmed]
I: Retrieving linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
W: Couldn't download package linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 (ver 
3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 arch amd64)
[more output trimmed]
I: Retrieving zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
W: Couldn't download package zlib1g (ver 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 arch amd64)
E: Couldn't download packages: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 zlib1g

If I look at the log and find the debootstrap command:

DEBUG debootstrap --arch=amd64 --include=linux-image-amd64,acpid stable
   /tmp/tmprREuvt http://mirror.lan:9999/debian

and run that by hand, it works fine. Before I discovered that I also tried 
multiple different mirrors. The version of debootstrap on the system is 
1.0.73~bpo8+1 but I also tried with 1.0.67, no difference.

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Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org