On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:32:54PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 21:54, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Since everyone's mystified about the Malformed release bug, and we're > > NMUing debootstrap, how about applying the patch in 131478? I don't > > really understand the issues the bug writer is talking about, but it > > sure seems like races and such can be a source for mysterious bugs. > > AFAICT the patch doesn't change the functionality. Why not try it? > > It looks like the piece of code affected by the patch isn't executed > until after the point at which the "Malformed.." error is generated. So > I don't think it will help here, though the patch seems benign enough in > itself. > > I must admit, I wasn't really aware that this problem was still with us. > My first inclination would be to attack it by having debootstrap > redirect wget's stderr to somewhere other than /dev/null, so that in the > event of download problems the user can at least figure out what's going > on. Debootstrap itself probably won't be able to spot failed downloads > of the Release file because its error checking relies on $PIPESTATUS > which ash doesn't seem to support.
No _that_ sounds like a root cause. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
