On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:27:40AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:51:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Only because it's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that causes > > > > initramfs-tools to be pulled into the essential set (which I do not), this > > > > is a cdebootstrap bug for not fulfilling the pre-depends of the essential > > > > packages before continuing. > At least in Lucid, initramfs-tools is essential: > util-linux -> upstart(upstart-job) -> mountall -> plymouth -> initramfs-tools No, only essential packages and the pre-depends of essential packages (and the transitive dependencies of the latter) are part of the essential closure. util-linux depends: upstart should not lead to trying to satisfy the dependency chain of upstart before configuring the pre-depends of essential packages. Do you see another dependency chain that causes initramfs-tools to be treated as essential by cdebootstrap? Or does cdebootstrap have an option that allows for debugging this? It's entirely possible that I have overlooked a dependency chain that accounts for this being an initramfs-tools bug only and not a cdebootstrap bug, but I have looked - there's nothing obvious, which is why I think it's a cdebootstrap bug. > > > You should know better, awk is not essential. Also essential means that > > > it have to work _without_ being configured. > > I know quite well that awk *is* part of the essential closure, because it's a > > pre-dependency of an essential package. Even *unpacking* of base-files is > > not supposed to happen (in an ideal world) before awk has been configured, > > and you definitely shouldn't be trying to configure *other* packages before > > the pre-depends of essential packages have been satisfied. > In an ideal world, it is possible to configure every essential package > with its dependencies and pre-dependendies on its own. Yes. But even so, cdebootstrap needs to get the ordering right. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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