Hi, Quoting Benjamin Drung (2020-01-06 11:17:46) > The bug is that some files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ remain. Example: > > $ mmdebstrap --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \ > -v --component=main \ > --setup-hook="echo \"deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster contrib\" > > \"\$1/etc/apt/sources.list.d/example.list\"" \ > buster /tmp/buster.tar.xz > $ tar -tf /tmp/buster.tar.xz | grep '/var/lib/apt/lists' > ./var/lib/apt/lists/ > ./var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_InRelease > ./var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages > ./var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_contrib_i18n_Translation-en > ./var/lib/apt/lists/lock > ./var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ > > I expect that these deb.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_* files in > /var/lib/apt/lists/ are removed.
I agree. You again found a nice corner-case bug. Thanks! :) The problem here is, that you place stuff into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. When cleaning, mmdebstrap passes /dev/null to apt instead of /etc/apt/sources.list, so that apt will remove everything in /var/lib/apt/lists/ that was before downloaded due to the content in /etc/apt/sources.list. But mmdebstrap does *not* overwrite the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory and hence apt will still keep all the Packages files associated with these lists. That's the effect you are seeing here. Apt indeed does clean everything except the "buster_contrib" lists that come from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Gladly the fix is simple. Thanks! cheers, josch
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