Package: install Severity: important When using d-i etch rc2, apt-setup will fail if the mirror you are trying to use does not have a "testing" symlink available. In rc1 and before, it would find the codename directly. Here is what seems to be the relevant section of syslog during install:
Mar 27 22:58:25 apt-setup: Reading package lists... Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/etch/Release -O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep ^Codename: | cut -d' ' -f 2 Mar 27 22:58:54 choose-mirror[24308]: ERROR **: Error getting codename Mar 27 22:58:54 apt-setup: warning: /usr/lib/apt-setup/generators/50mirror returned error code 1; discarding output On the businesscard CD, this is a fatal error and installation cannot continue. That by itself would be a minor annoyance to me (since it's a private mirror that I could just set the symlink on), but on the netinst CD, this is a silent error, and only the cdrom and security.d.o are put into sources.list. As a result, only "Laptop" and "Standard System" are given by tasksel on the next step, and a half-broken system is installed (just what packages happen to be on security.d.o). RF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
