Package: base-files Version: 7.2 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org>, Debian Install System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org>, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
Hi [ CC'ing the maintainers of the other involved packages, cdebootstrap, base-passwd and cdebconf/ libdebconfclient0 ] Trying to cdebootstrap Debian unstable fails starting with the 2014-01-10 22:01:06[2] dinstall (2014-01-10 16:12:15[1]) is still o.k.) by throwing the following error condition: # cdebootstrap --arch=amd64 --flavour=minimal --debug --verbose sid /mnt/ http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ […] O: Setting up libdebconfclient0:amd64 (0.187) ... P: Configuring package libdebconfclient0:amd64 O: Setting up base-files (7.2) ... P: Configuring package base-files D: Updating base-files to status 3 O: chown: invalid user: 'root:root' O: dpkg: error processing package base-files (--configure): O: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 […] O: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.17-97) ... O: Errors were encountered while processing: O: base-files O: bash D: Status: 256 E: Internal error: install The cause for this appears to be a subtile change of the implicit package configuration order under cdebootstrap, triggered by libdebconfclient0 gaining multi-arch qualifiers with 0.186 --> 0.187. This results in base-passwd now being configured after base-files, while base-files already depends on /etc/passwd and /etc/group from its postinst: --- 20140110T161215Z +++ 20140110T220106Z @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ P: Unpacking package tar P: Unpacking package libtinfo5:amd64 P: Unpacking package mawk P: Unpacking package base-files -P: Unpacking package libdebconfclient0 +P: Unpacking package libdebconfclient0:amd64 P: Unpacking package base-passwd P: Unpacking package sensible-utils P: Unpacking package debianutils @@ -309,8 +309,6 @@ P: Configuring package debianutils P: Configuring package bsdutils P: Configuring package perl-base P: Configuring package diffutils -P: Configuring package libdebconfclient0 -P: Configuring package base-passwd P: Configuring package mawk P: Configuring package hostname P: Configuring package findutils @@ -324,9 +322,11 @@ P: Configuring package libsepol1:amd64 P: Configuring package tzdata P: Configuring package zlib1g:amd64 P: Configuring package libgcc1:amd64 +P: Configuring package libdebconfclient0:amd64 P: Configuring package base-files P: Configuring package libattr1:amd64 P: Configuring package e2fslibs:amd64 +P: Configuring package base-passwd P: Configuring package libcomerr2:amd64 P: Configuring package libacl1:amd64 P: Configuring package libslang2:amd64 I think this should be solvable by declaring a dependency on base-passwd to base-files, so base-passwd gets configured before base-files' postinst tries to use chown: diff -Nrup a/debian/control b/debian/control --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Package: base-files Provides: base Architecture: any Pre-Depends: awk +Depends: base-passwd Essential: yes Priority: required Replaces: base, miscutils, dpkg (<= 1.15.0) Given that this cdebootstrap breakage affects the first bootstrap phase, I have not been able to actually test this patch, but I hope it fixes the problem. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140110T161215Z/debian/ [ok] [2] http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140110T220106Z/debian/ [broken]
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