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and subject line Re: Bug#1003177: mmdebstrap: --dry-run fails with error:
cannot read /var/cache/apt/archives/
has caused the Debian Bug report #1003177,
regarding mmdebstrap: --dry-run fails with error: cannot read
/var/cache/apt/archives/
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Package: mmdebstrap
Version: 0.7.5-2.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
mmdebstrap from Debian stable fails to run with --dry-run. Example:
```
$ mmdebstrap -v --dry-run --variant=minbase unstable root.tar
[...]
Inst sysvinit-utils (3.01-1 Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf sysvinit-utils (3.01-1 Debian:unstable [amd64])
I: skip extracting packages because of --dry-run
I: no essential packages -- skipping...
E: cannot read /var/cache/apt/archives/
W: listening on child socket failed:
I: removing tempdir /tmp/mmdebstrap.e7VYvXTJ31...
```
Running the same command on Debian unstable with mmdebstrap 0.8.2-1
works, but backporting mmdebstrap >= 0.8 to Debian bullseye fails,
because mmdebstrap >= 0.8 requires a APT version that is newer than the
one shipped in bullseye.
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Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2022-01-05 20:50:49)
> yes, backporting is not an option. Luckily, the fix is trivial:
>
> --- /usr/bin/mmdebstrap 2022-01-05 19:47:50.477129738 +0000
> +++ /usr/bin/mmdebstrap.fixed 2022-01-05 19:47:43.277074092 +0000
> @@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@
> # /var/cache/apt/archives/ might not be empty either because
> # the user used hooks to populate it or because skip options
> # like essential/unlink or check/empty were used.
> - {
> + if (-e "$options->{root}/var/cache/apt/archives/") {
> my $apt_archives = "/var/cache/apt/archives/";
> opendir my $dh, "$options->{root}/$apt_archives"
> or error "cannot read $apt_archives";
>
> I'll ask the release team to also accept that fix in addition to what I
> already
> proposed in #1003188.
not relevant for current Debian stable and long fixed. Closing.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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