Bug#212920: recovery from failed runs

2003-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > Before debootstrap is run, list all files in /target. > > If the run fails, take the list agian, and compare the lists to find all > > files added during the run. Remove these. > > I believe we should generate this list every time debootstrap is > execu

Bug#212920: recovery from failed runs

2003-09-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > Before debootstrap is run, list all files in /target. > If the run fails, take the list agian, and compare the lists to find all > files added during the run. Remove these. I believe we should generate this list every time debootstrap is executed. Then we can check if this list exis

Bug#212920: recovery from failed runs

2003-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: base-installer Severity: normal Several install reports mention problems when a debootstrap run fails for some reason, and then future runs die because debootstrap is not idempotent. We came up with a way to avoid this problem: Before debootstrap is run, list all files in /target. If the