Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Neale Banks wrote: Extremely weird indeed - and raises the question of just how should we generate Packages[.gz] which are acceptable to the current install tools. Any suggestions? Before, I was creating the Packages files, and did a 'gzip -c -9 Packages Packages.gz' to compress them. If I

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-21 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: Before, I was creating the Packages files, and did a 'gzip -c -9 Packages Packages.gz' to compress them. If I do them with 'cat Packages | gzip --best Packages.gz', like debian-cd does it, then it works. Turns out this wasn't my problem (at least

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-20 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. These look *very* similar to issues I've seen in the last few months while hacking on debian-cd: * shortcomings in busybox gunzip (#402482) thanks ;) i suspected 'corrupted' indices (or, indicies not the way

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 04:53, Neale Banks wrote: But... I added a few more debs to the pool and rebuilt Packages[.gz] with apt-ftparchive - now debootstrap complains: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. pgplb5BSfm8zx.pgp

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frans Pop wrote: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. would it be of any help uploading a sample iso? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 17:54, Daniel Baumann wrote: Frans Pop wrote: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. would it be of any help uploading a sample iso? Suggest

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. You do know there are two separate Release files that need to be updated? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joey Hess wrote: You do know there are two separate Release files that need to be updated? I only updated /dists/etch/Release, which one did I miss? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Neale Banks wrote: May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or directory May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: I only updated /dists/etch/Release, which one did I miss? as said on irc, the arch Release file in /dists/etch/main/binary-*/Release do not need to be changed, and have no influence to this bug anyway. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joey Hess wrote: This suggests that a deb is corrupt or is not being loaded properly, since debootstrap uses ar to extract the first set of debs. i even get those errors if I just 'unpack' the image, and re-assemble it, without changing any .deb or .udeb. as the initrd.gz is also unchanged, i

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: Neale Banks wrote: May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or directory May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. These look *very* similar to issues I've seen in the last few months while hacking on debian-cd: * shortcomings in busybox gunzip (#402482) thanks ;) i suspected 'corrupted' indices (or, indicies not the way d-i wants them) rather than corrputed busybox, because

debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-17 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've been, mostly successfully, customising the etch Netinst with preseeding. But... I added a few more debs to the pool and rebuilt Packages[.gz] with apt-ftparchive - now debootstrap complains: Warning: file:///cdrom/dists/etc/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz was corrupt and Warning: