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Re: error when installing the base system



On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:35:51PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Matt Kraai wrote on Thu Mar 14, 2002 um 08:26:05AM:
> 
> > > I searched every cd for a source called basedebs.tar but i cannot find it.
> > > May it be, that the cds are not correctly burned?
> > 
> > If you install from CD, basedebs.tar isn't required.
> > 
> > pppoeconf is unpacked by debootstrap, but isn't included on the
> > first CD.  I'll contact the debian-cd folks about fixing this.
> 
> Why? Blame the CD distributors that cook the CDs with an outdated version
> of debootstrap. See:
> 
> /usr/share/debian-cd/tasks/base-woody:    debootstrap --arch $arch --print-debs $CODENAME | tr ' ' '\n'

CD distributors can't be expected to read through the lists of
packages and regenerate them on the chance that something has
changed.  debian-cd needs to update this file or, even better,
generate the list dynamically.

Matt

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