Joey Hess wrote: > >Neale Banks wrote: >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: >/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: > No such file >or directory >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: >/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: > No such file >or directory > >I would set -x debootstrap to figure out why it's failing like this. It >should be copying the Packages files to those filenames, so why do they >not exist? > >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: ar: >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: Short read >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: zcat: >> May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: Short read > >This suggests that a deb is corrupt or is not being loaded properly, >since debootstrap uses ar to extract the first set of debs.
Hmmm. These look *very* similar to issues I've seen in the last few months while hacking on debian-cd: * shortcomings in busybox gunzip (#402482) * d-i still demanding a Packages file as well as Packages.gz -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
