Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.114
I have a local Debian Mirror organized with mirror_style 'main'. I've
used this setup for years.
Using this mirror under buster, debootstrap fails with the error
message
E: Couldn't download
The error message is generated by the shell function
download_main ()
in the file
/usr/share/debootstrap/functions
at line 911. The cause is line 885 in the same function
for p in "$@"; do
The double quotes cause the list of packages to be seen as a single
item. The for loop iterates only once with the value of p containing
the entire space-separated list of packages.
The fix is to remove the double quotes. I've have tried this fix and
it works. The for loop then iterates over each package separately.
The bug was introduced when line 425 in 1.0.89
"$DOWNLOAD_DEBS" $(echo "$@" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort)
was replaced with (at line 484 in 1.0.114)
"$DOWNLOAD_DEBS" "$(echo "$@" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort)"
Note the addition of double quotes in the newer version. The for loop
line is the same in both versions. In 1.0.89, DOWNLOAD_DEBS is
called with many arguments. In 1.0.114, it has just one.
The value of $DOWNLOAD_DEBS could refer to either the
download_main or
download_release
function corresponding to the mirror_styles 'main' and 'release'. In
the 'release' case, the new version works fine(*). I suspect the bug
only appears in the less common 'main' case. That is why I don't
suggest reverting the function calling site and instead altered the
for loop in the function download_main.
In my setup, I call debootstrap as follows:
/usr/sbin/debootstrap \
--verbose \
--variant=minbase \
--arch=amd64 \
--components=main \
buster \
/mnt/impromptu/Tigris \
file:///srv/digital_content/debian_mirrors/buster/ \
/usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/buster_main
The debootstrap script is simply the buster script with mirror_style
main instead of release.
cd /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/
diff buster_main buster
1c1
< mirror_style main
---
> mirror_style release
Thanks for your attention,
Tim Connors
tim.conn...@ranchosoquel.net
(*) This how I recently re-populated the local mirror from
mirrors.kernel.org.
