Package: debian-installer Version: 20130211 Followup-For: Bug #703404 Hi,
I don't understand why bug #703146 is not already fixed, but here is a workaround based on the suggestion of Pierre Blondeau (http://bugs.debian.org/703404#112): It consists to modify /bin/apt-install in the initrd to make it manages errors differently; if installation of a package fails (this can happen for busybox or any other package after the debootstrap-base stage), then clean and update the APT database of the target, and try again. This works fine, also for automated and preseeded installations; this has been tested with the netboot initrd (20130211). See the diff in attachment. cheers, quidame -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information
--- a/bin/apt-install 2011-02-11 03:00:13.000000000 +0100 +++ b/bin/apt-install 2013-04-02 10:07:43.038031326 +0200 @@ -76,6 +76,21 @@ in-target sh -c "debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- \ apt-get $apt_opts install $packages" || ERRCODE=$? +################################################################################ +# This is a workaround of the bugs: +# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703146 +# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703404 +# If installation of a package fails, clean and update APT database, and try +# again. +if [ "$ERRCODE" != 0 ]; then + ERRCODE=0 + in-target find /var/lib/apt/lists/ -type f -delete + in-target apt-get update + in-target sh -c "debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- \ + apt-get $apt_opts install $packages" || ERRCODE=$? +fi +################################################################################ + if [ "$REMOUNT_CD" ]; then load-install-cd "/target" || true fi
