Package: partman-target Severity: normal This bug occurs in the debian-edu version of the sarge installer, which reorders the main menu so autopartkit comes before partman. On such a system, main-menu skips over autopartkit, which is first, and selects partman. But if partman is not included on the CD, then it happily selects autopartkit.
Currently debian-edu-profile-udeb has a menu item of 17; debian-edu-install-udeb is 10 and depends on it, autopartkit, bootable-system, and prebaseconfig. This makes main-menu order the menu as follows: languagechooser 10 kbd-chooser 12 debian-edu-profile-udeb 17 hw-detect-full 35 autopartkit 50 partman 42 base-installer 65 grub-installer 73 prebaseconfig 78 debian-edu-install-udeb 10 country-chooser 11 cdrom-detect 14 load-cdrom 14 lilo-installer 75 main-menu goes down this list and will run the first item that isn't configured whose memu-item-number is greater than 14 (the number of load-cdrom, which was the last menu item run). That is debian-edu-profile-udeb. After the profile is selected, it advances to hw-detect-full which is next. After that, we'd expect it would go to autopartkit. It skips autopartkit because provides_installed_virtual_package() returns true for that package. This is supposed to mean that autopartkit provides a virtual package that is also provided by some other already configured package. AIUI, this check takes care of skipping lilo-installer after grub-installer has been run. The problem is that autopartkit provides created-fstab, and so does partman-target. So main-menu skips autopartkit. I think the problem is that partman-target is not a menu item, but provides something also provided by a menu item; worse it provides something that is not satisfied when partman-target is configured, but only after partman runs. So this provide belongs in partman. Now, maybe main-menu should only consider menu items for this test (but it seems hard to make this change to provides_installed_virtual_package. Another way to look at it is that autopartkit provides several things that are not yet also provided by configured packages, perhaps it should only be skipped if all its provides are otherwise satisfied. That is easy to implement, but I haven't done it because who knows what it might break. A few recent changes consipired to expose this bug: - anna was changed to configure packages that are not menu items as it loads them; previously they were marked as unpacked and not configured and so did't trigger the check - partman-target and autopartkit began to provide created-fstab, previously partconf-mksftab did this. -- see shy jo
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