broken $MIRROR/dists/$CODENAME/Release file
Hi,
It seems that that file is placed in the CD staging directory by the
start_new_disc
script. Unfortunately, it seems to leave the wrong sums in it triggering a very
ugly installation message from debootstrap:
!! ERROR: Debootstrap warning
Warning: file:///cdrom/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz was corrupt
[Press enter to continue]
rendering a non-intaractive installation an interactive installation and
leaving one with an uneasy feeling. I thought I could just hack a fix in
by adding a DISC_FINISH_HOOK script in that would fix the sums.
Apparently, the sums are computed *AFTER* the DISC_FINISH_HOOK
has been run. No way out. Except, perhaps, to disentangle debian-cd
code to figure out where the check summing happens. I tried grepping
for /Release in all the source, but did not find an obvious answer. :(
If it helps any:
$ cd /tmp/mk-distro-b23096/simple-cdd/tmp/cd-build/etch/CD1/dists/etch/
$ cat Release
Suite: stable
Codename: etch
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:15:39 +0000
Architectures: i386
Components: main
Description: mirror for etch
MD5Sum:
8f4848988b542d4bcae9519f7dd1fd84 149981 main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
31778b10ad5f2d3af64595d1d891a8d0 80 main/binary-i386/Release
fc5b9c77631e9874c3df4a19de09422b 240977 main/binary-i386/Packages
88cedc1a7e149c37afd591e8fafa592c 85203
main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz
272283fef2ae939a996731c0b2703664 133207
main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
$ md5sum main/binary-i386/Packages.gz main/binary-i386/Release \
> main/binary-i386/Packages main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz \
> main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
1088ffd228dd30660b56a58d44ae05d4 main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
31778b10ad5f2d3af64595d1d891a8d0 main/binary-i386/Release
fc5b9c77631e9874c3df4a19de09422b main/binary-i386/Packages
88ec5bd00b0692c03868356350a6f5f6 main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz
272283fef2ae939a996731c0b2703664 main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
/tmp/mk-distro-b23096/simple-cdd/tmp/cd-build/etch/CD1/dists/etch
$ ls -go main/binary-i386/Packages.gz main/binary-i386/Release \
> main/binary-i386/Packages main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz \
> main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 240977 Nov 16 10:27 main/binary-i386/Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 79115 Nov 16 10:27 main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 80 Nov 16 10:27 main/binary-i386/Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 133207 Nov 16 10:27 main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 35110 Nov 16 10:27 main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz
The uncompressed Packages files are correct, so it looks like they get
re-compressed
and yield a different sum.
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