Bug#355799: install fails because chroot fails due to lack of tar

[Geert Stappers <stappers@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:20:42PM -0500, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Version: 2.12
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Boot method: CD
> Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
> Date: 06 March 2006
> Installed system ok:    [0 ]
    <snip/> 
> Comments/Problems:
> 
> As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
> bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably.  The error
> was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
> coreutils basepasswd".
> After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
> attempting to use
> dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
> was no tar executable in
> the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
> the CD's tar command to
> /target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
> it worked flawlessly.

I'm not sure if this is #345590, insufficient dependencies by debootstrap,
or a failure in the build system for AMD64.