Bug#964248: marked as done (base-installer: Pass "--extra-suites=unreleased" to debootstrap on ports arches)

[jhcha54008 <jhcha54008@free.fr>]

Le lundi 17 août à 00h 55mn 08s (+0200), John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> What happens when a port does not have any packages in "unreleased"?
> 
> ... to dicuss first whether enabling "unreleased" unconditionally will work
> even if a port doesn't have any package in this suite.

Hi again,

I doubt that an empty 'unreleased' distribution is the cause
 of the problem (but an inexistent one causes an error with
--extra-suites=unreleased for sure).

hppa is an example of architecture with no regular deb packages in 
'unreleased', only udeb. Trying :

# debootstrap --arch=hppa --variant=minbase --foreign --extra-suites=unreleased sid my_chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports
[ ... ]
: Extracting zlib1g...
0 dtl64-seine:/home/moi/cages# echo $?
0

So, it works (actually, I haven't tested in the context of the
debian-installer. I expect a similar result).

In the paricular case of hppa, --extra-suite is definitely useless but
seems harmless. Should it be enabled ?

Regards,
JH Chatenet