On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:50:43PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:33:59PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: debootstrap >> Version: 0.3.2 >> Severity: important >> >> Calling debootstrap with --print-debs includes kill_target. This seems >> a little silly - if we're just calling debootstrap to list the debs, >> we don't _have_ a target to kill! > >Yes, you do: --resolve-deps (on by default now) creates it as somewhere >to store the Packages files it downloads in order to see the Depends: >fields it's trying to resolve.
Ah, my bad. I hadn't noticed that bit. >> This change has caused us to have some really strange issues when >> producing debian testing CDs, as debootstrap was unexpectedly removing >> parts of the setup tree. Hence the Severity: important above... > >You can use "--keep-debootstrap-dir" to avoid kill_target. I'm not >actually quite sure why kill_target would be problematic behaviour for >debian-cd though. I've added the --keep-debootstrap-dir option already to get things going, and that seems to have worked. debian-cd is using debootstrap from the _udeb_ for each architecture to verify that we will have all the packages needed installed on the CD, hence the --print-debs. As we're not specifying a target, strange things are happening in kill_target and the debian-cd work directory is getting deleted. As the "--keep-debootstrap-dir" stops this happening, I can only deduce that kill_target is to blame. I'll dig into this a little more when I have the time. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
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