On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:16:45PM -0400, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: > I'm building a Debian Etch CDD for my students at a local university, so > they get Haskell, all the libraries they need and the lecture slides for > the course I teach. I do my CDD building on a Debian Etch machine (up to > date as per s.d.o) where simple-cdd 0.3.4 has been installed manually. I > have a full Debian mirror at my office. > > I followed the Quick Start as explained > in /usr/share/doc/simple-cdd/README:
oh dear... i didn't realize how out of date that was... i'm sorry. please use the instructions from the wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD/Howto i will make sure the README gets updated soon. > 1. Installed the required packages. > 2. Got the etch-simple-cdd using bzr, no problem. that bzr branch is no longer maintained... the current development branch actually works better with etch, in my experience. but i would recommend sticking to using the package, rather than bzr branches. > 3. Got into the working directory and created profiles/ci3725.packages > (ci3725 is my course code) with three lines > > alex > happy > haddock > > since those are simple and small packages and just wanted a quick > test. > 4. Built the .udeb using debuild, no problem. > 5. Ran > > ./build-simple-cdd --profiles ci3725 \ > --local-packages \ > ../simple-cdd-profiles_0.3.0~1_all.udeb > > which ran successfully creating an ISO that had the packages there. > Joy! > > Then I repeated the _whole_ procedure from scratch on a _new_ working > directory, just adding one single line to the packages file > > ghc6 > > which is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (essential for this CDD). This > time I got no joy, getting an error message instead > > ERROR: missing required packages from profile ci3725: ghc6 > > I've checked: > > 1. The package was downloaded into the working directory. It's in > > ./mirror/pool/main/g/ghc6/ghc6_6.6-3_i386.deb > > 2. All its dependencies where also downloaded into the working > directory. I've checked them manually. Twice. > > 3. Somehow, it doesn't make it into ./tmp/cd-build/etch/CD1/pool > > I removed ghc6 from the package list, and it worked again. I added > ghc6-doc (which is built from the same source package as ghc6 is) and it > worked too. > > What am I missing? hard to say, usually something is missing a dependency that's only provided through a "Provides" line. for example, xorg's dependency on "sparc-utils | not+sparc", "no+sparc" is provided by the type-handling package on architectures other than sparc. i'll see if i can reproduce it. the only thing in your profile is profiles/ci3725.packages: alex happy haddock ghc6 correct? live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
