The insserv/netbase problem is a bug in netbase - filed. #556399 The issue with dash in the current Squeeze multistraps is a result of #546528 but the solution to be used in multistrap is simply to remove the dash postinst during the initial multistrap setup. As soon as multistrap is upgraded, the new postinst will work fine. The problems with netbase are a symptom of a wider issue, not restricted to insserv or dependency-based boot - that was just the precipitating factor. Another example is ifupdown: Setting up ifupdown (0.6.9em1) ... Creating /etc/network/interfaces. insserv: Service checkroot has to be enabled to start service ifupdown-clean insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing ifupdown (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 checkroot comes from initscripts. Bug filed: #556402 multistrap, so far, has assumed that dpkg can always work it's own way through a mass of packages and an almost completely empty system. That is not how a Debian system is installed - everything is staged. Core packages / required functionality goes in first, whether via debootstrap or d-i, only then can the other packages be expected to install properly. Usually it does work because dpkg resolves the dependencies (this is what was wrong in netbase) to reconstruct the staging done by debootstrap and d-i. Multistrap, especially in cross mode, will utterly rely on this dpkg support. i.e. things will break in multistrap while debootstrap is OK. multistrap will therefore gain a step to only install certain packages *after* everything else has been done. For native mode, this means that multistrap has an extra config field - 'additional' - in each repository section, listing the packages to be downloaded and installed only after the rest of the system is ready. In cross-mode, these packages will be added to the initial list (i.e. current behaviour). Fixing cross-mode, therefore, means modifying the netbase package in the repo to add the dependency on initscripts or wait for the bug to be fixed. (For testing, I built a local NMU of netbase and added it to my local Grip testing repo.) [Local] packages= additional=ifupdown ntpdate keyring=emdebian-archive-keyring source=http://localhost/grip/ suite=squeeze The bug fixes for the netbase and ifupdown packages will prevent the need to use 'additional' for those actual packages (and ntpdate is fine once netbase installs properly). These changes are all for Squeeze support - testing with Lenny continues until I'm sure that both are supported cleanly. (i.e. if you want to use Squeeze and you therefore use em_multistrap from SVN, remember to retain multistrap from the normal package to be able to retain Lenny support until the testing is complete.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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