make-fai-nfsroot: debootstrap 0.1.16.1 crashes at inst of exim

[Chad C. Walstrom]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Albrecht Frank wrote:
> Therefor the main problem is for me, how do I avoid the selection
> of exim [for debootstrap]?

The quickest way is to hack debootstrap's package selection files:

    bash# dpkg-divert --add --local --rename /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody

----------- BEGIN PATCH --------------
--- woody.old   Thu Jan 31 14:44:21 2002
+++ woody       Thu Jan 31 14:44:55 2002
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
             ;;
         "i386")
             required="$(without_package "libperl5.6" "$required") mbr"
+            base="$(without_package "exim" "$base")" 
             base="$base lilo pciutils setserial syslinux psmisc
pcmcia-cs"
             ;;
         "ia64")
----------- END PATCH --------------

Note, I said quickest.  I can't guarantee that it'll work.  There are
some packages that require a mail transport agent, such as cron.

A better solution would be to debug the exim install process.  Where
does it fail?  You can download the exim sources with

    bash$ apt-get source exim

Then add a 'set -x' line to the debian/postinst script.  Increment the
version to something like <version>-<debian version>.0.1.  Make your
debian package:

    # build a binary only package w/o digitally signing
    bash$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -rfakeroot

Place this in your local debian mirror and make sure your sources.list
file has a line to read that location.  Create a Packages and
Packages.gz file for that mirror.

    bash$ dpkg-scanpackages <directory> <overrides> > Packages
    bash$ gzip -c Packages > Packages.gz

Test it on your local workstation:

    bash$ sudo apt-get install exim

Test it with an FAI install.  Debug, change package, recompile, test,
test, test. ;-)

-- 
Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>                 | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/                            | s.k.a. gunnarr
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