Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> (2013-09-05):
> So, no mirror problem, fine. Then, what problem?

I've just reproduced this issue locally (using make rebuild_netboot-gtk
under build/). This doesn't appear to be related to the recent (last 2
months) apt updates, since I'm running 0.9.9.4 on this (slightly
outdated) sid box.

Looking at *Packages under build/apt.udeb/state, no acpi-* packages
there. So I suspected a given Packages file could have been corrupted
along the way. Switching to a different mirror in sources.list.udeb led
to a download of the current file. Voluntarily breaking that Packages
file (echo foo > into it) gets totally unnoticed.

So I suspect Packages files got truncated at some point (maybe a dak
glitch, a mirror sync issue, or whatever), and for some reasons apt
isn't refreshing them.

I haven't debugged that any further (yet).

Mraw,
KiBi.