make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Holger Mense wrote:
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> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Thomas Lange wrote:
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> > >>>>> 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
What reallly helps is reporting it upstream.
Please file a bugreport against debootstrap.
( http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for more information)

> Holger Mense
> Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik

Cheers
Geert Stappers
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