Bug#830869: debootstrap: script fails first stage due to missing devices.tar.gz despite no longer being used

[Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Hi,

Sorry I misfiled this bug against debhelper, this has now been fixed.

In short there seems to be a bunch of cruft associated with the
devices.tar.gz file which used to be used by the second stage to set up
devices in the bootstrapped chroot. This manifests itself if you run the
script from a SCM checkout without first doing a root based build (which
only works on Debian anyway).

In my case I fixed this by simply making cp || true although I guess
there is a bigger argument for properly excising the code as it is now
longer used AFAICT, see the main script:

                if true; then
                        setup_devices_simple
                elif [ -e "$DEVICES_TARGZ" ]; then
                        zcat "$DEVICES_TARGZ" | (cd "$TARGET"; tar -xf -)
                else
                        error 1 NODEVTGZ "no %s. cannot create devices" "$DEVICES_TARGZ"
                fi

Sorry for the additional bug noise.

--
Alex Bennée