** Description changed:
During netboot installations, the network udeb retriever fetches
Packages files for hardy, hardy-security, and hardy-updates. However,
nothing deals with de-duplicating these, and, if asked to install a
package that is duplicated across pockets, anna will end up trying to
install the same thing multiple times and crashing in utter confusion.
This has been fixed in net-retriever 1.21ubuntu2 in intrepid, by adding
some relatively simple de-duplication code. This is strictly the wrong
place for it, but my assessment is that trying to do it in libdebian-
installer (the correct place) for hardy would be very difficult and much
more likely to go wrong, as the code there is very convoluted.
The attached patch fixes this bug. Changelog entry:
* Deduplicate Packages files before passing them to anna (LP: #234486).
Circumstances conspire to make this excessively difficult, including
requiring net-retriever to become Architecture: any; this should really
be done in libdebian-installer, but for the meantime that's even harder.
TEST CASE: Fetch the netboot mini.iso from the archive
(http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-
proposed/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso; replace
- hardy-proposed with hardy to test the failing version), type 'cli
- anna/choose_modules=network-console' at the boot: prompt, and confirm
- that it gets as far as asking you for an SSH password. (This test case
- also covers bug 94398.)
+ hardy-proposed with hardy to test the failing version), type 'cli apt-
+ setup/proposed=true anna/choose_modules=network-console' at the boot:
+ prompt, and confirm that it gets as far as asking you for an SSH
+ password. (This test case also covers bug 94398.)
Regression potential: netboot installations might end up broken in
different ways. CD installations will be unaffected.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234486
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