Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix outdated URL in user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst

[Anton Ivanov]

On 29/09/2026 04:50, Chaohai Chen wrote:
> Using an outdated website results in an error:
>    E: Failed getting release file http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/Release
>
> It works successfully using https://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian .
>
> Signed-off-by: Chaohai Chen <wdhh6@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> index 9224bea5ee9f..c4d5d08e2bab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ jfs, etc will work too.
>   
>   Create a minimal OS installation on the mounted filesystem::
>   
> -   # debootstrap buster /mnt http://deb.debian.org/debian
> +   # debootstrap buster /mnt https://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian
>   
>   debootstrap does not set up the root password, fstab, hostname or
>   anything related to networking. It is up to the user to do that.

That is the historic archive - you have only out-of-support distros there.

That line should change to

> -   # debootstrap buster /mnt http://deb.debian.org/debian
> +   # debootstrap trixie /mnt http://deb.debian.org/debian/

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Anton R. Ivanov
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