Bug#633625: Please add more informations on 'Cannot download packages' errors
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.32
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
when running debootstrap on a possibly incomplete mirror, I found it
very useful to have version and architecture information in "Can't
download package" error messages, so I changed this line:
warning COULDNTDL "Couldn't download package %s" "$p"
with this line:
warning COULDNTDL "Couldn't download package %s %(ver %%s %arc %%s)" %"$p" %"$ver" %"$arc"
It was so useful that I cannot see a reason why this is not the
default. Could this be added, if not as default, at least when runnning
with --verbose?
A possible improvement could be to print the whole URL for which
download was attempted, but I couldn't find out how easy it would be to
do that.
Ciao,
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.12-3.1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
debootstrap suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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