Bug#477354: debian-installer: fails to bootstrap because of missing gpgv

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
> Op 22-04-2008 om 17:41 schreef Michal Suchanek:
> > The GUI installer works but the default one fails bootstrap and
> > complains that there is missing gpgv which is needed to verify  
> > packages.
>
> I doubt that this is really a bug in the installer because  
> otherwise we'd
> have had a lot more reports. Can you reproduce the error if you try  
> again,
> preferably using a different mirror?
>
> If you can reproduce it, please send us the syslog for the  
> installation
> (gzipped!).

Yes, on a second try it worked so it must have been a mirror outage.

I was not aware the package is downlodaded from the mirror -  
logically it should not be if it is used to validate the downloaded  
packages.

Thanks

MS