Bug#838388: debootstrap: Fails to strap squeeze since 1.0.83
Stephan Sürken writes:
> On Di, 2016-09-20 at 21:09 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> > It always exits here with exit code 2, without any further error
>> > message (not even when using --verbose).
>> >
>> There should be a log inside the target directory.
>
> ah, sure ;).
>
> debootstrap/debootstrap.log says:
>
> ---
> gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:01:30 2015 CEST
> gpgv: using RSA key AED4B06F473041FA
> gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmaster@debian.org>"
> gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:05:42 2015 CEST
> gpgv: using RSA key 64481591B98321F9
> gpgv: Good signature from "Squeeze Stable Release Key <debian-release@lists.debian.org>"
> tar: ./usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz: Cannot create symlink to 'dash.1.gz': File exists
> tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to 'dash': File exists
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Ah, I'm to blame for that. [1] added `-k` to the options passed to tar
in order to avoid replacing the new symlinks from / to /usr with real
directories. However it looks like tar returns an error when there are
actual file conflicts (as opposed to just symlink vs. directory).
Only adding -k for newer distributions (i.e. the ones that merged-/usr
supports) should work around the problem.
Just --keep-directory-symlink would of course be ideal, but I doubt it
is supported everywhere (being a long option to start with).
Ansgar
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debootstrap.git/commit/?id=6b79352a205a96cee441ae0c6247c4616097a517
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