Bug#1003014: make_disc_trees.pl misdetects files missing for debootstrap when a proxy is used to retrieve packages - essentially making the installer ignore packages on the CDROM
Hi Daniel, and Happy New Year!
On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 08:30:45PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Version: 3.1.35
>Severity: normal
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>I was recently building custom images using simple-cdd, and for some reason the
>installer was completely ignoring the packages shipped with the media. With
>some digging I found the installer reporting:
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>cdrom-detect: Base system not installable from CD, requesting choose-mirror
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>With some more digging I found that make_disc_trees.pl was reporting:
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>5 files missing for debootstrap, not creating base_installable
>
>But the relevant make_disc_tree.log file only contained this at the end:
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>Missing debootstrap-required I:
>Missing debootstrap-required Using
>Missing debootstrap-required auto-detected
>Missing debootstrap-required proxy:
>Missing debootstrap-required http://127.0.0.1:8000/
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>So actually there were no packages missing. Disabling the proxy then "fixed"
>the issue. There were no more complaints by make_disc_trees.pl, and the
>installer was using all the package put on the CD.
>
>So we somehow need to ignore messages like the above, which do not indicate
>packages missing.
Argh, OK. That's clearly the apt wrapper getting confused by the extra
output from apt. I'm guessing you have extra environment config to set
up the proxy here?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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* off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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