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--- Begin Message ---Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.24-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable in /usr/lib/rootstrap/modules/uml there is this piece of code: # setup the timezone, the same as the host [ ! -e $HOST/etc/timezone ] || TARGET_TIMEZONE="$(cat $HOST/etc/timezone)" if [ -e "$TARGET/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TARGET_TIMEZONE" ] ; then chroot $TARGET cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TARGET_TIMEZONE /etc/localtime echo "$TARGET_TIMEZONE" > $TARGET/etc/timezone fi I flatly admit that I don't really understand the code. If there is no /etc/timezone on the host we do a "cat" on it... If there is not, we don't assign anything to TARGET_TIMEZONE but we use it anyway... Nevertheless, the fact is that if you build a new debian system based on recent sid/lenny, there is no /etc/timezone file. If you use that system as host for rootstrap, this code snippet fails, causing the entire rootstrap process to fail. There is a work-around; for me, in Denmark, "echo CET > /etc/timezone" on the host makes rootstrap work just fine. Again, I don't undertand why it works - I can't figure out where TARGET_TIMEZONE is assigned to. But it works. Only it took me a lot of time to figure this out. Obviously, timezone information in sid/lenny is stored a place different from /etc/timezone. I have no clue as to where - my timezone is correct, most likely based on the information about location that I gave the Debian installer - but I don't know where it has stored the information, nor how this information should be copied to the guest user-mode-linux file system. But we need to figure this out and update rootstrap accordingly. Right now, rootstrap does not work on newly created sid/lenny host systems. best regards Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rootstrap depends on: ii debootstrap 1.0.3 Bootstrap a basic Debian system ii dpkg 1.14.7 package maintenance system for Deb ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o ii user-mode-linux 2.6.22-1um-1pcn4 User-mode Linux (kernel) Versions of packages rootstrap recommends: ii uml-utilities 20070815-1 User-mode Linux (utility programs) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: rootstrap Source-Version: 0.3.24-4 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of rootstrap, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: rootstrap_0.3.24-4.diff.gz to pool/main/r/rootstrap/rootstrap_0.3.24-4.diff.gz rootstrap_0.3.24-4.dsc to pool/main/r/rootstrap/rootstrap_0.3.24-4.dsc rootstrap_0.3.24-4_i386.deb to pool/main/r/rootstrap/rootstrap_0.3.24-4_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated rootstrap package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:34:41 +0900 Source: rootstrap Binary: rootstrap Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.24-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: User Mode Linux Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: rootstrap - A tool for building complete Linux filesystem images Closes: 446729 446795 Changes: rootstrap (0.3.24-4) unstable; urgency=low . * handle the case where no /etc/timezone exists and just copy /etc/localtime instead (Closes: #446795) * use /sbin/MAKEDEV as the link from /dev/ is not provided anymore (Closes: #446729) * Remove long time inactive uploaders * bump Standards-version to 3.7.3 (lintian warning) Files: 56ac10ce53ee711ce48ac0d8026ee83c 724 utils optional rootstrap_0.3.24-4.dsc 0804d74e78786634cceb9e505cf807ad 7074 utils optional rootstrap_0.3.24-4.diff.gz ddbb048063b35b1144b6c8ca29005a70 21466 utils optional rootstrap_0.3.24-4_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHej6pgpRPaOotLEERAm1OAKC1AiBb60Ndtm07/KVBgsA9FOzhWwCcDtM+ QMPEV1rczYpGyGGDTyqYNdU= =AcS5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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