debian minimal

[Bernhard]

Hello,
I ask again about a debian-8/9-minimal (preferably with coldkernel). I
know there was already a discussion on the subject, but I could not
gather enough information yet to start myself. There is a conf file
debian-8-minimal-3.0.2-201505170018.conf on github. The date "2015" is
not completely re-assuring. Is there a newer one? Even if it were
up-to-date, what do I do with this file? Could someone give me a brief
summary (or give diff's to the well documented archlinux building process)?

Thank you! Bernhard

[u+q...@bestemt.no]

Are these instructions of any help? You basically just follow the
instructions for building Arch.

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170428154944.xt4ggq6xhhd3wxe3%40bestemt.no

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ubestemt

[Unman]

Hello Bernhard

I thought that this had been adequately dealt with before.


If you want to follow the instructions for archlinux, do so.
Step 2 is optional - you do not need a github account.
Step 5 is optional - you are able to deselect Fedora23 during setup
stage.

At step 6, (run ./setup) follow the instructions until the "Builder
Plugin Selection" screen - Select builder-debian instead of
builder-archlinux. (If you skipped Step5 you will have to leave
builder-fedora selected.)

At the "Template distribution selection" screen, (deselect fedora-23 if
selected), select jessie+minimal.

Follow the rest of the instructions.

unman

[Bernhard]

Hi Unman & ubestemt,

thank you for your patience. I followed Unmans hints. The difference is
that, due to no-full-fedora-appvm-working-error I was using a
f-24-minimal als starting point. This is bad, since minimal means
minimal.. so the setup script failed miserably several times without
surprise. The first ones seemed easy. I added dialog, dialog-devel. Then
it was dpkg-dev and debootstrap that were missing. Got them as well.
Since gpg is used & installed I added as a guess additionally openssl &
openssl-devel as well. Now I am stuck: Setup spills out

Traceback (most recent call last)
File ./setup, line 1919 in <module>
main(sys.arg)
File ./setup, line 1902, in main
Wizard(DialogUI(), **args)**
File ./setup, line 1190 in __call__
self.verify_keys(self.keys, force=False)
File ./setup, line 1233, in gpg-verify_key
_env=env
..
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' code can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 91:
ordinal not in range(128)

This error, as suggested here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte

is due to some coding problems. Maybe some 'errors' in the setup script
never appear in a rich-fedora system, but fail in fedora-minimal? I have
no clue how too fix that. Anyone might help?

Bernhard