make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

[Holger Mense]

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On 6 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0400, "Arcady Genkin" <agenkin-lst-fai at thpoon.com> said:
>
>     > I did.  Quoting from my original message:
>
>     >>> The output of "sh -x make-fai-nfsroot -v", our fai.conf and
>
>     >>> http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~agenkin/tmp/fai/make-fai-nfsroot_out.txt
> Sorry, I didn't see that before.
>
> I can''t see a problem, so IMHO it's a problem with the mirror.

I also recognized this problem on my fai server in mid-june. The latest
debootstrap doesn't solved the problem, neither did using an offical
mirror.

I tracked down the problem to be in the file
/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody.

The following patch does not fix the bug, but it solves the problem of a
not functional deboostrap:

=== cut ===
- --- /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody.orig  Wed Jun 16 15:22:39 2004
+++ /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody       Wed Jun 16 15:22:46 2004
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@

         echo \
 "Package: $pkg
- -Version: $ver
+Version: 1.9.21
 Status: install ok installed" >> "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/status"

         touch "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/info/${pkg}.list"
=== cut ===

It seems, that the variable $ver is empty when writing a status entry for
dpkg. I don't know why this suddenly happened, but also another fai
administrator here at university of paderborn noticed the same problem on
his server.

hth, Holger Mense

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Holger Mense
Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik
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