Debootstrap invalidates Packages.bz2 for Gutsy

[Naman Dixit]

Affected System: Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit.

Running

sudo debootstrap --variant=buildd gutsy /genera http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

with the following in /etc/schroot/schroot.conf

[gutsy]
description=gutsy
directory=/genera
root-users=naman
type=directory
users=naman

results in

I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 630239CC130E1A7FD81A27B140976EAF437D05B5)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
W: Retrying failed download of http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
W: Retrying failed download of http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
W: Retrying failed download of http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
W: Retrying failed download of http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2

and so on. The Packages.bz2 file is not corrupt and can be checked by

$ wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
--2015-11-12 08:18:18-- http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
Resolving old-releases.ubuntu.com (old-releases.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.88.17
Connecting to old-releases.ubuntu.com (old-releases.ubuntu.com)|91.189.88.17|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1070422 (1.0M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘Packages.bz2’
100%[=====================================================================>] 10,70,422 35.5KB/s in 20s
2015-11-12 08:18:39 (51.2 KB/s) - ‘Packages.bz2’ saved [1070422/1070422]

$ bzip2 -tvv Packages.bz2
  Packages.bz2:
    [1: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [2: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [3: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [4: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [5: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [6: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [7: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [8: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    ok

The same procedure has been tested for Hardy and Feisty and it works in both cases, Gutsy is the only case where it seems to fail.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

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