Package: base-installer Version: 0.029 (not installed) Severity: important Tags: patch
If multiple extra packages are queued for installation, base-installer sends them all to apt-install at the same time, which fails if one of them is not installable. Please see the included patch, which makes it install the packages one by one, which might be a little slower but is a lot safer. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dessverre 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
Index: debian/postinst =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/tools/base-installer/debian/postinst,v retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -r1.47 postinst --- debian/postinst 30 Jul 2003 08:46:30 -0000 1.47 +++ debian/postinst 14 Sep 2003 17:21:08 -0000 @@ -133,7 +133,10 @@ db_progress INFO base-installer/apt/progress/step_install if [ -f /var/lib/apt-install/queue ] ; then - apt-install `cat /var/lib/apt-install/queue` || true + # We need to install these one by one in case one of them fails. + for PKG in `cat /var/lib/apt-install/queue`; do + apt-install $PKG || true + done fi db_progress STEP 1
