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)
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