unable to build fakeroot in stable branch

[Javi Roman]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Ottavio Campana <ottavio at campana.vi.it> wrote:
> I'm trying to build a minimal image for my palm tx to learn how OE works. So
> far I have downloaded and configured id, but compilation stops when it comes
> to fakeroot:
>
>  NOTE: Running task 187 of 520 (ID: 53,
> /home/bott/stuff/org.openembedded.stable/packages/fakeroot/fakeroot-native_1.8.3.bb,
> do_fetch)
>  NOTE: package fakeroot-native-1.8.3: started
>  NOTE: package fakeroot-native-1.8.3-r1: task do_fetch: started
>  NOTE: fetch
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz
>  --20:10:46--
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz
>            => `/home/bott/sources/fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz'
>  Risoluzione di ftp.debian.org in corso... 128.101.240.212
>  Connessione a ftp.debian.org|128.101.240.212:21... connesso.
>  Accesso come utente anonymous ... Login eseguito!
>  ==> SYST ... fatto.   ==> PWD ... fatto.
>  ==> TYPE I ... fatto.  ==> CWD /debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot ... fatto.
>  ==> PASV ... fatto.   ==> RETR fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz ...
>  Il file "fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz" non esiste.
>
>  in fact, fakeroot 1.8.3 does not exist (sorry for the italian wget output)
> any more in the debian repository, so the build fails. So far I fixed it by
> using the bb file for fakeroot 1.9.4 from the dev branch.
>
>  Does anyone of you have the same problem? How do you fix it?
>

I had the same problem, I fixed it using other version also.

Regards.