Bug#598991: live-build 3.0a4 exits with error when using option "--source true"

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@debian.org>]

On 09/10/10 09:48 AM, Mark Schneider wrote:
> "lb build" stopped with the following error message:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch
> file:/live/image/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  File not
> found

What, in your config, would create a Packages.gz in this location?  I
could find no option in the supplied config that would do that.  So
unless I am missing something, there is an error in your config and not
a bug here.  That is, I would expect apt to attempt to generate indices
for everything listed in /etc/apt/sources* -- isn't this what is
supposed to happen?  And yes, I see you have --binary-indices false, but
that only governs the final disposition of indices when the image is
built and does not guarantee that apt won't be run during the binary
stage.  If your intent is to add apt sources that aren't actually valid
until the image is booted, then you must defer adding the sources lines
to the binary image config until the image is booted too.

Please fill me in on anything I may have missed that would invalidate my
analysis.

Ben