On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:27:13 -0700 Ryan Finnie <r...@finnie.org> wrote: > Package: install > Severity: important > > When using d-i etch rc2, apt-setup will fail if the mirror you are > trying to use does not have a "testing" symlink available. In rc1 and > before, it would find the codename directly. Here is what seems to be > the relevant section of syslog during install: > > Mar 27 22:58:25 apt-setup: Reading package lists... > Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 > Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/etch/Release -O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 > Mar 27 22:58:53 choose-mirror[24308]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://my.mirror/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep ^Codename: | cut -d' ' -f 2 > Mar 27 22:58:54 choose-mirror[24308]: ERROR **: Error getting codename > Mar 27 22:58:54 apt-setup: warning: /usr/lib/apt-setup/generators/50mirror returned error code 1; discarding output > > On the businesscard CD, this is a fatal error and installation cannot > continue. That by itself would be a minor annoyance to me (since it's > a private mirror that I could just set the symlink on), but on the > netinst CD, this is a silent error, and only the cdrom and security.d.o > are put into sources.list. As a result, only "Laptop" and "Standard > System" are given by tasksel on the next step, and a half-broken system > is installed (just what packages happen to be on security.d.o). > > RF > >
