Package: base-installer Version: 1.160 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi there,
The following snippet can be found in library.sh:
# Assumes the file protocol is only used for CD (image) installs
configure_apt () {
if [ "$PROTOCOL" = file ]; then
[…]
if ! log-output -t base-installer \
chroot /target apt-cdrom add </dev/null; then
error "error while running apt-cdrom"
fi
else
# sources.list uses space to separate the components, not comma
COMPONENTS=$(echo $COMPONENTS | tr , " ")
APTSOURCE="$PROTOCOL://$MIRROR$DIRECTORY"
echo "deb $APTSOURCE $DISTRIBUTION $COMPONENTS" > $APT_SOURCES
fi
Is there reason for making such an assumption? I didn't check whether
$PROTOCOL was used by other packages, but even if the value can't be
changed to say, “cdrom”, please at least ensure that it was set to
“file” because a CDROM was detected; for instance by replacing the test
with
if [ "$PROTOCOL" = file ] && [ -f /cdrom/.disk/base_installable ]; then
(which the test performed by get_mirror_info to set PROTOCOL in the
first place).
It might sound weird to use a file:// mirror URI. But in my case it's
very convenient when setting up minimal networkless VMs to use in a test
suite (with a shared partial mirror in a directory exposed to the
guests). base-installer currently calls apt-cdrom(8) on that directory,
which is needlessly slow and sometimes even confusing when a popup asks
me to insert the disk (probably due to a race condition).
Thanks,
cheers,
--
Guilhem.
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