debootstrap: security updates

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 17:42, Christoph Mitasch wrote:
> Here are the details:
>
> The problem was that the function "delete_base_packages" in the
> "fai-mirror" script removes all packages that are already included in
> base.tgz. This function removed a security-updated package from the
> fai-mirror.
>
> Now when "task_instsoft" tried to install a package that depends on the
> security-updated one, it failed because of a dependency to the newer
> version of the updated package existed.
> That updated package was not installed through "task_extrbase" and not
> updated through "task_updatebase" since the fai-mirror didn't contain
> the security-updated package.
>
>
> Ok and now the concrete case.
>
> When installing with fai-cd it fails at "task_instsoft" with the
> following error:
> "perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.4-8sarge3) but 5.8.4-8 is to be
> installed"
>
> The reason for that is that the "perl-base 5.8.4-8" package was already
> installed through "base.tgz" and that "perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge3" was
> removed through "delete_base_packages" from the fai-mirror.
>
> I think the "delete_base_packages" function should be reworked so it
> does not remove security updates.
> At the moment it removes packages with that command, where $p is a name
> from base-pkgs.lis (e.g. perl-base)
> # rm $archivedir/${p}_*.deb
>
> There is a option "-a"for fai-mirror that solved my problem.
> "-a     Add packages included in base.tgz and packages defined in
> make-fai-nfsroot.conf to the mirror."
>
>
> And now I'm just happy that it works again ;)
>
> Christoph
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:20 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > What kind of "conflict" is it? Could you be so kind and provide some logs
> > or the exact error message?

Thomas, you have not replied to this at all :( To me this looks like a bug 
worth fixing - shall I commit it to the BTS tomorrow ?!


regards,
	Holger

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