On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:21:36PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:42:27PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Package: deboostrap > > Version: 0.1.15.2 > > Severity: important > > > > I tried a woody cdrom install with the boot floppies 3.0.13 (on i386). > > But it failed at the debootstrap stage. The error code returned by > > debootstrap was 2 and the error log displayed : > > debootstrap: arithmetic expression: syntax error: " 613617 + " > > > > As you can see there's an operand missing here ... I guess the bug > > is in deboostrap but feel free to reassign to boot-floppies if that's not > > the case. > > I just hit this today also, in my case it was becaue my Release file > contained > > Origin: Debian > Label: Debian > Suite: unstable > Codename: sid > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:05:19 UTC > Architectures: ia64 > Components: main contrib non-free > Description: Debian Unstable - Not Released > MD5Sum: > a01acad1cf5a0427775e19876489bdce 82 main/binary-ia64/Release > aa49ba5ee800c49884a55851bf0b4665 650939 main/binary-ia64/Packages > d0479cd8ad8f9f2bc1224750962ef0dd 188406 main/binary-ia64/Packages.gz > 724568b8089e9fc55e020dae4bbac79d 85 contrib/binary-ia64/Release > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0 contrib/binary-ia64/Packages > efda3ac87739f34855652c06c6302144 20 contrib/binary-ia64/Packages.gz > > > i.e. Components: included non-free but there was no md5sum entry for > non-free. I initially assumed it was a problem with my Release file. > > I'd generated an ISO with debian-cd, and hadn't told it to include > non-free. I ran it again telling it to put non-free on the last CD, and > it then produced a valid Release file. So, maybe this is a bug with > debian-cd really.. sounds like an excellent reason debootstrap should NOT include non-free in the list of Packages files it requires. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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