I picked up the latest svn and got a failure as shown below. Looks like there is a new dependency on aptcache. Is that the same as apt-cache? Does this require some service be running? Googling aptcache throws up a page giving the warning: "This command is not to be used by common users." Since I definitely fall in the common user category when dealing with things apt, I am hesitant to play around too much. -- Charles make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' #Clean-up: in order to use fakeroot we have to clean out rootfs first mkdir -p ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/sources/packages (cd ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian && rm -rf emdebian-grip-rootfs) rm -f ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate # build rootfs with multistrap and then fix it up enough to boot it and do dpkg --configure -a; # then unpack modules into rootfs and tar up the resulting whole. # Fakeroot state is loaded/saved between invocations to preserve ownerships `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` /usr/sbin/em_multistrap -a armel -d "../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs" -f "multistrap-balloon.conf" --tidy-up --source-dir ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/sources/packages && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` "./rootfs-config" "../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs" "files" && \ (cd ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs && rm -rf lib/modules/ ) && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` tar -C ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs --owner=root --group=root -xf ../../../build/kernel/modules.tgz && \ `if [ -z $FAKEROOTKEY ]; then echo "fakeroot -i ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate -s ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate"; fi;` tar -C ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs -czf ../../../build/rootfs/emdebianrootstrap.tgz . fakeroot: database file `../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/fakerootstate' does not exist. em_multistrap 0.0.6 using multistrap-balloon.conf em_multistrap building 'armel' multistrap on 'i386' Err http://aptcache lenny Release.gpg Could not resolve 'aptcache' Err http://aptcache lenny/main Translation-en_NZ Could not resolve 'aptcache' Get:1 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates Release.gpg [197B] Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Translation-en_NZ Get:2 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates Release [21.4kB] Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Sources Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages Get:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [1,033B] Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_NZ Ign http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Sources Get:4 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release [73.8kB] Get:5 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages [152kB] Ign http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release Get:6 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Packages [5,041kB] Get:7 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Sources [181kB] Get:8 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Sources [2,308kB] Fetched 7,779kB in 3min 3s (42.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B NO_PUBKEY 4D270D06F42584E6 W: Failed to fetch http://aptcache:3142/www.emdebian.org/grip/dists/lenny/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'aptcache' W: Failed to fetch http://aptcache:3142/www.emdebian.org/grip/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_NZ.bz2 Could not resolve 'aptcache' W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages (../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/www.emdebian.org_grip_dists_lenny-proposed-updates_main_binary-armel_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Packages (../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-armel_Packages) apt-get -y -o Apt::Architecture=armel -o Apt::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true -o Apt::Get::Download-Only=true -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false -o Dir=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/ -o Dir::Etc=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/ -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list -o Dir::State=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/ -o Dir::State::Status=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/dpkg//status -o Dir::Cache=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/cache/apt/ install udev ntpdate balloon3-config iputils-ping apt emdebian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring emdebian-archive-keyring base-files base-passwd dpkg libattr1 libc6 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libvolume-id0 perl-base tzdata Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done W: Unable to read ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory) E: Couldn't find package balloon3-config apt download failed. Exit value: 100 make[2]: *** [../../../build/rootfs/emdebianrootstrap.tgz] Error 100 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs' make: *** [all] Error 1 charles@qcore:/opt/balloon/trunk$