Federico Giacomini writes:

> Why is etch still linked to the unstable distribution? How can I chroot into etch?

This script is used by debootstrap as a "recipe" how to make the
chroot and currently there's no difference between them all except the
package versions and dependencies that are dynamicaly resolved.

To chroot into etch you'd need to create a chroot using debootstrap
(man debootstrap) and then use chroot command to change to it (man
chroot).

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On giovedì 11 ottobre 2007, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Federico Giacomini writes:
>
> > Why is etch still linked to the unstable distribution? How can I chrootinto etch?
>
> This script is used by debootstrap as a "recipe" how to make the
> chroot and currently there's no difference between them all except the
> package versions and dependencies that are dynamicaly resolved.
>
> To chroot into etch you'd need to create a chroot using debootstrap
> (man debootstrap) and then use chroot command to change to it (man
> chroot).
>

ok, thank you. Now I'm having problems in installing nearly any new packages while jailed within etch:

# apt-get install dpkg-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
dpkg-dev: Depends: dpkg (>= 1.13.20) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: perl5
Depends: perl-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib #non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib #non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib #non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib #non-free

what may be missing or misconfigured?

Federico Giacomini writes:

> ok, thank you. Now I'm having problems in installing nearly any new
> packages while jailed within etch:
>
> # apt-get install dpkg-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> dpkg-dev: Depends: dpkg (>= 1.13.20) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: perl5
> Depends: perl-modules but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib #non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib #non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib #non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib #non-free
>
> what may be missing or misconfigured?

Maybe you haven ot did an apt-get update?

Anyway, this isn't on topic on debian-boot and I'd suggest you to move
it to debian-user mailing list since it's the proper place for this
kind of discussion and support request.

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On giovedì 11 ottobre 2007, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Federico Giacomini writes:
> >
> > what may be missing or misconfigured?
>
> Maybe you haven ot did an apt-get update?
>
> Anyway, this isn't on topic on debian-boot and I'd suggest you to move
> it to debian-user mailing list since it's the proper place for this
> kind of discussion and support request.
>

ok, sorry