Bug#254054: network install fails on installing apt-utils

[Leo Cacciari]

Package: install
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

I'm trying to install sarge using the installer and the network install 
procedure as depicted in 
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerNetbootPXE
I'm using the 'monolithic' images, as described in the Using alternative 
images section of the above mentioned document (with 'standard images the 
HD wasn't detected).

The install proceed without any detectable problem, until the configuartion 
of apt-utils is tried. The configuration fails. mentioning that apt-utils 
depends on libdb4.2 and that the latter is not installed. 

This causes the Installing the base system phase of the install process,
and then the whole install process, to fail.

I'm sorry that I'm unable to join any log of the process to this mail, but
as the intall process fails I have no idea how to recover /var/log/messages.

Thanks for your work and your attention.

-- 
Leo TheHobbit Cacciari


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C


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Bug#254054: Patch for the x86 architecture

[Leo Cacciari]

Hi,
  I'm sorry that I did not see it before sending the bug report... Obviously,
it simply a matter to modify the /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/ in the 
intird file system in such a way that the libdb4.2 package is installed.

I only modified the sarge script in the above directory, and only added the
needed package to the list for the 386 architecture. That because I have
no way to try other release and/or architectures.

You'll find the patch for the /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge script
attached to this mail.

Thanks again

-- 
Leo TheHobbit Cacciari

*** /mnt2/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
--- /mnt/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge  Sat Jun 12 21:51:38 2004
***
*** 30,36 
  ;;
  i386)
required=$(without_package libperl5.8 $required)
! base=$base pciutils setserial psmisc
IPFWTOOL=ipchains iptables
  ;;
  ia64)
--- 30,36 
  ;;
  i386)
required=$(without_package libperl5.8 $required)
! base=$base pciutils setserial psmisc libdb4.2
IPFWTOOL=ipchains iptables
  ;;
  ia64)