Bug#472704: I face same issue W: Failure while configuring base packages.

[Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr>]

Le 4/17/12 3:56 PM, Olivier Sallou a écrit :
> Hi,
> I suddenly face the same error with debootstrap: (sid).
> I made today a complete apt-get upgrade, so I am up-to-date in packages.
>
> debootstrap --arch amd64 --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg  sid
> /mnt/debootstrap.21191 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian
> ...
> I: Configuring aptitude...
> I: Configuring libswitch-perl...
> I: Configuring tasksel-data...
> I: Configuring perl-modules...
> I: Configuring perl...
> I: Configuring tasksel...
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted
> up to five times.

It seems it is an update/mirror issue
In sid libept1 has been upgraded to v1.6.0, but it is not available on
all mirrors.
Current version does not match current libapt-pkg version (expect 4.10,
now using libapt-pkg4.12).
Expecting that binary v1.6.0 matches correct dependency.....
>
> This used to work not a long time ago, so it seems it occured after a
> package update....
>

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