Bug#472704: debootstrap: Could not reproduce exactly.

[James Richardson <james@jamesr.biz>]

Package: debootstrap
Severity: normal


Hi, I seemed to be having the same issue, here is my info.

I have been trying to bootstrap several openvz instances with debootstrap
incantations similar to:

$sudo debootstrap --variant minbase  --include=aptitude,netbase,ifupdown,puppet,lsb-release sid /var/lib/vz/private/305 http://apt:3142/ftp.us.debian.org/debian

I received the errors about base packages:

W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.

I thought maybe it does like sid, lets try lenny. Lenny was sucessful.
Ok, lets try sid without the minbase and --includes. (e.g.
$sudo debootstrap sid /var/lib/vz/private/305 http://apt:3142/ftp.us.debian.org/debian

That was sucessfull. Perhaps the bug is fixed, not-reproduceable.

I went back to the original incantation, added --verbose. The 
debootstrap log in /var/lib/vz/private/305/debootstrap had errors
complaining the puppet was not configured, missing dependency of 
(host | bind9-host). I added bind9-host to list of includes and all is
now working.

I said all that to say that the bug may be fixed, I have no idea of what
fixed it, the official way to document that it may be resolved.

I also don't know exactly why the dependencies weren't picked up, even 
with --resolv-dep.

The actual depency chain looks like
puppet depends on factor,
factor depends on (host | bind9-host).

factor is pulled in automagically, bind9-host is not.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'testing-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  wget                  1.11.4-4           retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-4    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information