Re: Big problem with 20040614 sid_d-i i386 netinst image
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:41:46PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > The next pending change will break cdrom installs, because debian-cd
> > > discards libdebconfclient-udeb and anna can't resolve the virtual
> > > dependency without adding extra tracking for that case. For now it
> > > just ignore the missing package, but this makes it unreliable to decide
> > > if a dependency is realy there. (e.g. partman always checks for the
> > > availability of the module)
> > libdebconfclient-udeb is pre-installed in the initrd, so it shouldn't
> > matter what debian-cd does.
>
> So? How is it resolvable using the Packages files provided by the cds?
There's a /var/lib/dpkg/status in the initrd that mentions
libdebconfclient0-udeb. Why isn't this good enough?
In any case, it's going to suck if we have to duplicate all
installed-in-the-initrd udebs on the CD as well. Ditching those saves
11MB from powerpc CDs, as I mentioned a while back.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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