On Sat, 19 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > 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) > > thanks ;) > > i suspected 'corrupted' indices (or, indicies not the way d-i wants > them) rather than corrputed busybox, because i know that debian-cd does > not use apt-ftparchive anymore. however, it's broken busybox then.
Ah... so it's not something I did wrong. > according to the bugreport you referenced, this seems to be a know issue > for month. how likely is it that this can be fixed with etch point > release? if not busybox can be fixed, can d-i be changed to not insist > on Packages.gz if a Packages is available? > > unrelated to that, it's an extremely weird bug if the /original/ indices > are accepted, but any changed ones not. Extremely weird indeed - and raises the question of just how should we generate Packages[.gz] which are acceptable to the current install tools. Any suggestions? Thanks, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
