On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:12:25PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > emdebian-tools is not part of Etch and is not designed to work with > Etch, only with Lenny or Sid. Were you attempting a backport? No, just wanted to look at emdebian =) . Hm, is it mentioned anywhere that etch is not supported? > The solution is to upgrade to testing or unstable which will, in > turn, require an addition to /etc/apt/sources.list to add a suitable > mirror. Ok, I'll move to lenny then. > If I do change postinst, it may only be to disable emdebian-tools if > such a system is detected. At least as a temporary solution, I think. > True, postinst does need to be updated rather than simply dying but I > don't see any way of supporting a cdrom-only (even DVD-only) > installation. > > > Should postinst be changed to something like this, maybe? > > I'm not sure that any form of non-internet system can be supported in > emdebian-tools. > > Can you send me the output of 'apt-cache policy' for your setup? === cut here === Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://buildd.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages release v=0.1,o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Emdebian-unstable,c=main origin buildd.emdebian.org 500 http://buildd.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages release v=0.1,o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Emdebian-tools-unstable,c=main origin buildd.emdebian.org 500 http://buildd.emdebian.org testing/main Packages release v=0.1,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Emdebian-tools-testing,c=main origin buildd.emdebian.org 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages origin Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40 Pinned packages: === cut here === --
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature