Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2012-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: debootstrap's current download error handling isn't very robust. It declares success just for the presence of a downloaded file, which may be a partial download, or one for which the checksum doesn't match. Eventually those

Bug#269656: Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Colin Watson wrote: I've committed my improved version, which you're welcome to review: Cool! Thanks for looking into this. This problem has reared its head on me too many times to count over the past few years ;) Thanks again! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: debootstrap version: 1.0.28 severity: important tags: patch debootstrap's current download error handling isn't very robust. It declares success just for the presence of a downloaded file, which may be a partial download, or one for which the checksum doesn't match. Eventually those

Bug#618920: debootstrap: needs more robust download error handling

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
I probably should have mentioned that these errors are much more likely within d-i for some reason. The best way to reproduce this is to do an installation up through partitioning, then do: $ debootstrap wheezy /target/wheezy-chroot http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110318T093210Z At