Problem with nfsroot

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

A friend of mine tried to install woody with nfsroot recently, i.e.
on a sparc with no local hard disk used, but through an nfs exported
directory.

This was not possible, probably due to this bug:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00154.html

In short: debootstrap fails because dpkg fails because setting a lock
on NFS fails.

Any chance to get this fixed for a woody point release?  This may
require a change in dpkg, though.  Unfortunately I don't have enough
spare time at the moment to work on it on my own.

Regards,

	Joey

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