Hi, On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:17:13AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > [ X-D-Cc: debian-boot@ and jrt...@debian.org ]
If you say so :) > Finally reporting this, which started a while ago: > | root@wodi:/# apt-get update > | Get:1 http://localhost/debian buster InRelease [136 kB] > | Get:2 http://localhost/debian buster/main Translation-en [5530 kB] > | Get:3 http://localhost/debian buster/main/debian-installer amd64 > | Packages [50.5 kB] > | Fetched 5716 kB in 1s (5065 kB/s) > | Reading package lists... Done > | W: Skipping acquire of configured file > 'main/debian-installer/i18n/Translation-en' as repository > 'http://localhost/debian buster InRelease' doesn't have the component > 'main/debian-installer' (component misspelt in sources.list?) > > which is obtained by adding main/debian-installer to sources.list: > | deb http://localhost/debian buster main main/debian-installer The reason for apt complaining here now is that the Release file says: | Components: main contrib non-free The later of the two components mentioned in the sources.list is hence not officially supported by the repository (at least as far as apt is reasoning now – the same guess it makes for Architectures and co). So, what we could do is asking ftpmasters to change that field to: Components: main contrib non-free main/debian-installer contrib/debian-installer non-free/debian-installer and be done. Then this was mentioned last week on IRC I got the impression that it might make sense to not do this through as these d-i components, while they are part of the release, are not really for human consumption, so that keeping them on a needs-to-know basis might be better – but I am not sure how that should be implemented and what the point would be in the end as the Release isn't for human consumption either… > There's no reason for translations to be present in the archive for the > main/debian-installer component, so it's perfectly OK not to find this > file. [Does the installer need Translation-en for "main"? If not perhaps write: | deb [lang=none] http://localhost/debian buster main main/debian-installer Which is supported for a few releases now (and previously silently ignored).] > It seems buggy anyway: installing apt-file in a clean buster chroot, > enabling the Contents-udeb stanza in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf > then running apt-get update leads to: > | root@wodi:/# apt-get update > | Hit:1 http://localhost/debian buster InRelease > | Get:2 http://localhost/debian buster/main amd64 Contents (deb) [32.2 MB] > | Get:3 http://localhost/debian buster/main amd64 Contents (udeb) [38.0 kB] > | Fetched 32.2 MB in 4s (6659 kB/s) > | Reading package lists... Done > | W: Skipping acquire of configured file > 'main/debian-installer/i18n/Translation-en' as repository > 'http://localhost/debian buster InRelease' doesn't have the component > 'main/debian-installer' (component misspelt in sources.list?) > | W: Skipping acquire of configured file > 'main/debian-installer/Contents-amd64' as repository 'http://localhost/debian > buster InRelease' doesn't have the component 'main/debian-installer' > (component misspelt in sources.list?) > | W: Skipping acquire of configured file > 'main/debian-installer/Contents-udeb-amd64' as repository > 'http://localhost/debian buster InRelease' doesn't have the component > 'main/debian-installer' (component misspelt in sources.list?) > > so Contents files were fetched anyway, from the correct locations. Yes, the Contents files for 'main' where fetched, but apt couldn't get them for 'main/debian-installer'. The same logic applies to all files apt is told to download – it doesn't discriminate between files it needs itself and files others have told them to get as well all too much. > I'm not sure what could be done. Handling debian-installer specifically > doesn't sound too good. Maybe you could look whether a matching Packages > or Sources file (depending on what you're fetching) exists, and disable > warnings for extra files (Translations, Contents) if files were found in > the first place. You would still catch obvious typos without generating > noise when those extra files aren't found? The thing is that apt suspects a misconfiguration with these warnings; if it wouldn't suspect it, it would be as silent as before (as those files are "optional" in indextarget-config speak). That it isn't complaining about Packages/Sources is just because it happens to look for the files in the Release file first and finds them, so it never wonders why it couldn't find them identifying a misconfiguration as potential reason. It isn't really guaranteed that apt is configured to fetch Packages/Sources for all sources.list entries through and even if it is the files might be empty (and hence allowed to be missing from the Release file, which apt supports e.g. for Packages files if the arch is mentioned in Architectures. Debian doesn't make use of this yet through and I don't know how other tools might react if it would). So we can't really go with a logic of "if any file from this component can be downloaded" as that set might very well be empty. We also can't look if the Release file contains any file for this component as we don't really know what is the component in the filepath: "main/debian-installer/some/file" might be from the component "main", "main/debian-installer" or "main/debian-installer/some". As said, I am not sure. In the end reassigning to ftpmaster might be the best option, but I am open for other opinions. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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