Bug#964248: marked as done (base-installer: Pass "--extra-suites=unreleased" to debootstrap on ports arches)
On 19.08.20 19:01, jhcha54008 wrote:
> 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 ?
If it works without issues (I mean if it doesn't abort during installation), then
I think the unreleased suite should be included for the hppa
architecture and all others by default. Specifically for hppa it could be
that we need to add packages in the future - even if it's best
to avoid adding packages there.
Helge
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