Package: base-config Version: 2.53.10 (I may very easily have reported this bug against the wrong package. It's difficult to localise the problem.)
I've been trying to manually install a Debian system using debootstrap, as described in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en . So I ran debootstrap as follows to create me a bare-bones Debian sarge system in a subdirectory: debootstrap sarge z http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian (where `z' is the name of my subdirectory). Then I chrooted into that subdirectory and ran `/usr/sbin/base-config new'. One of the options offered by base-config was `Configure apt', which in due course I selected. This ran apt-setup. apt-setup asked me to specify an access method (I selected http), a country (I selected US) and a server (I selected ftp.us.debian.org). It produced me an /etc/apt/sources.list which read deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main I wanted a Debian stable system, not testing, which is why I asked debootstrap to install sarge rather than etch. But apt-setup appears to have unilaterally decided that I really wanted testing. Once I knew this was happening I was able to work around it easily enough, by manually editing /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing `testing' with `stable'. But I didn't notice the error the first time round, and was somewhat surprised to find aptitude helpfully upgrading most of the base packages debootstrap had installed, and even uninstalling one (libnewt0.51)! When I realised it had non- consensually upgraded me to a testing system, I had to restart my entire install from scratch. It's not clear to me whether this is a problem somewhere in the base-config package, or in some package archive on the net which apt-setup is talking to. Initially debootstrap was a suspect as well, but I think I've at least ruled that out by observing that none of the files in the debootstrap package even _contains_ the word `testing'. So I'm reporting it against base-config because it's as close as I can get to a sensible localisation of the error. If I'm wrong, I apologise. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Tatham "I'm going to pull his head off. Ear by ear." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - a games teacher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
