debootstrap --foreign --arch armhf ${deb_release} ${rootfs} ${deb_local_mirror} does not work in Raspbian build script. Changing deb_mirror to an official Debian mirror while leaving the rest of the script untouched works.

Maybe there are some packages missing in the Raspbian repository which are necessary for creating the root filesystem.

Is it possible to update to use Jessie as the base?

Could we use this script in order to build minimal raspbian edition. (server edition like)

The script seems not to work in ubuntu 16.04 it gives this error

`sudo ./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh
no block device given, just creating an image
3800+0 records in
3800+0 records out
3800000000 bytes (3.8 GB, 3.5 GiB) copied, 54.2209 s, 70.1 MB/s
image /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/images/raspbian_basic_wheezy_20160916.img created and mounted as /dev/loop6

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.27.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognised partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4b0b0740.

Command (m for help): Partition type
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): Partition number (1-4, default 1): First sector (2048-7421874, default 2048): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-7421874, default 7421874):
Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 64 MiB.

Command (m for help): Selected partition 1
Partition type (type L to list all types): Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'W95 FAT32 (LBA)'.

Command (m for help): Partition type
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): Partition number (2-4, default 2): First sector (133120-7421874, default 133120): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (133120-7421874, default 7421874):
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 3.5 GiB.

Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument

The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8).

mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
/dev/mapper/loop6p1: No such file or directory
mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
The file /dev/mapper/loop6p2 does not exist and no size was specified.
mount: special device /dev/mapper/loop6p2 does not exist
/usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1368: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: cannot create /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/rootfs/test-dev-null: Permission denied
E: Cannot install into target '/home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/rootfs' mounted with noexec or nodev
cp: cannot create regular file 'usr/bin/': Not a directory
chroot: failed to run command '/debootstrap/debootstrap': No such file or directory
mount: mount point /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/rootfs/boot does not exist
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 178: etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 180: boot/cmdline.txt: No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 184: etc/fstab: No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 186: etc/hostname: No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 193: etc/network/interfaces: No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 197: etc/modules: No such file or directory
chroot: failed to run command '/third-stage': No such file or directory
./build_raspbian_sd_card.sh: line 232: etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
chroot: failed to run command '/cleanup': No such file or directory
umount: /dev/mapper/loop6p1: not mounted
umount: /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/rootfs: not mounted
umount: /dev/mapper/loop6p2: not mounted
finishing /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/images/raspbian_basic_wheezy_20160916.img
loop deleted : /dev/loop6
created image /home/fcon/Gits/build-raspbian-image/rpi/images/raspbian_basic_wheezy_20160916.img
done.
`

Tested in vm whit 14.04 seems to work fine.