Installing debian on openmoko --- using snapshot archive fails

[e.waelde]

Hi,

i stupidly got myself into an unusable neo (touch dead), so I
decided to give this a try.

see http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2011-May/002982.html

 > Timo Juhani Lindfors writes:
 > > Eric Smith <es at fruitcom.com> writes:
 > > IT would be nice to provide an install routine against a snapshot
 > > to make sure that it works.
 >
 > This is a really good suggestion. Since we nowadays have
 > snapshot.debian.org this should be fairly easy: you only need to have
 > time-based URLs in sources.list.
 >
 > Want to be a guinea pig and try? ;-) Just use
 >
 > deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110101T031503Z/ squeeze main
 >
 > in install.sh and hope for the best.

date 010112002011
date

HOSTNAME=neo \
SD_SWAP_SIZE=256 \
SD_FREE_SIZE=1024 \
APT_OPTIONS="--yes --allow-unauthenticated" \
INST_MIRROR=http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110101T031503Z/ \
FSO_MIRROR=http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian \
RDATEHOST=192.168.10.1 \
VERBOSE=1 \
ZHONE=true \
LOCALEPURGE=true \
TASKS="GPS,NET,TEXT,WIFI,SYSUTILS" \
time ./install.sh  testing partition format mount debian apt fso configuration tasks kernel cleanup unmount < /dev/null

...

This fails in stage "debian"
P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt
O: Selecting previously deselected package cdebootstrap-helper-apt.
O: (Reading database ...
O: 6139 files and directories currently installed.)
O: Unpacking cdebootstrap-helper-apt (from .../cdebootstrap-helper-apt.deb) ...
O: Setting up cdebootstrap-helper-apt (1) ...
O: Ign bootstrap:/ ./main Translation-en
O: Get:1 bootstrap: . Release.gpg [835 B]
O: Get:2 bootstrap: . Release [104 kB]
O: E
O: :
O: Release file expired, ignoring bootstrap:/dists/./Release (invalid since 179d 6h 49min 51s)
O:
O: dpkg: error processing cdebootstrap-helper-apt (--install):
O:  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100
O: Errors were encountered while processing:
O:  cdebootstrap-helper-apt
E: Internal error: install
Command exited with non-zero status 1


So I turned the clock backward (2011-01-01 12:00:00) and skipped the "time" stage ...
did not help, since *something* changed the time back. frameworkd? gpsd? ???
killed most of the processes including X11 and started over ...

After 2:14h it completed successfully.
reboot: ok.
touch screen: ok.

However, you need to install fso-sounds-yue-full or fso-sounds-yue-base, otherwise
it will not ring audibly :-)

Any better ideas?

Erich