On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 15:49 +0200, Olliver Schinagl wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.35+deb8u1 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > when installing flash-kernel on a very basic and minimal system (created with > multistrap) flash-kernel fails to install. > > While flash-kernel does seem to work and is installed afterwards this makes > automated installation via multistrap impossible. > > My packages from multistrap looks like this, which as you can see is fairly > minimal > packages=f2fs-tools connman wpasupplicant iptables dropbear avahi-daemon > libv4l-0 lsb-invalid-mta ca-certificates mtd-utils busybox apt usbmount udisks2 > rsync > > I guess adding some dialog dependancy is probably the quickest fix, but I don't > think is the best solution. > > root@system-02880482d32a:~# apt-get install flash-kernel > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > flash-kernel > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B/34.2 kB of archives. > After this operation, 76.8 kB of additional disk space will be used. > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed > Selecting previously unselected package flash-kernel. > (Reading database ... 14355 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../flash-kernel_3.35+deb8u1_armhf.deb ... > Unpacking flash-kernel (3.35+deb8u1) ... > Setting up flash-kernel (3.35+deb8u1) ... > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based > frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line > 76.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > readlink: invalid option -- 'm' [...] I think the problem is that you're using busybox instead of coreutils (which is essential and therefore doesn't have to be explicitly depended on). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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