Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So, I rechecked.
>
> After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what
> did I find?
>
> A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly
> "*.postinst" files.
>
> Where are they coming from? These are all from installed packages, but all
> packages should be from bookworm and not trixie.
>
> Of course I also checked sources.list in chroot, and all are "bookworm", so
> IMO there is no reason, why anything should contain "trixie". Bookworm does
> not know of trixie. Strange.....
>
> I believe, THIS is the reason, why it wants to install grub-efi-amd64-
> unsigned: false entries in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info.
>
> Question: Does the live-build script get any information from the native
> installed debian? Then this would explain, why it got false informations: I
> played with the installed native debian, just to look, which packages are new
> in trixie. Thus I changed my sources.list (in the native debian) temporarly to
> trixie
Yes, but what did you do while that sources.list was in place?
> (and then back).
What were the actual steps you took to restore your native debian
to bookworm? Those three parenthesised words impart close to zero
information.
> Of course my native bookworm still got the
> "*.postinst" files below /var/lib/dpkg/info.
‘the’ *.postinst files: which ones specifically. Your saying
"of course" doesn't seem to carry much weight any more.
> And if "lb build" will copy THIS to the chroot, then it will explain, what
> happens. However, this is just a guess.
You see? If that is /the/ explanation for your build problem,
then you're implying here that your native system is now a
frankendebian, aren't you?
> Maybe one of the live-build-maintainers knows more.
Probably they do, but I wouldn't think they'd want to get involved
in your problem, when you've already accused them of being the cause
of it at the start of the thread.
Cheers,
David.
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