Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > Alex Bennée: >> Package: debhelper >> Severity: normal >> > > Hi Alex, > > I am a bit confused by this bug. Did you perhaps intend to submit it > against debootstrap instead of debhelper?
Apologies, completion fail. I was fighting M-x debian-bug which took several attempts to send the email. Yes it should be against debootstrap. Can I reassign it in BTS? > >> Since bug #571136 was fixed we no longer actually need a devices.tar.gz >> to build our tarball. However we can't just checkout the debootstrap >> script and call directly because it still requires the tarball. One >> possible fix is attached bellow, although a more thorough cleaning could >> be done: >> >> --- >> Subject: [PATCH] debootstrap: fail gracefully copying devices.tgar.gz >> >> The devices tarball only exists if you build the source code (as root) >> before invoking the script. Since bug #571136 was fixed the >> --second-stage doesn't even use the devices tarball so we can afford to >> fail gracefully when it doesn't exist. In addition this allows us to >> call the script under -e conditions from a straight checkout which is >> useful in other cases. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> >> --- >> debootstrap | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/debootstrap b/debootstrap >> index 2a959bb..4027a5d 100755 >> --- a/debootstrap >> +++ b/debootstrap >> @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ if am_doing_phase first_stage; then >> if ! am_doing_phase second_stage; then >> cp "$0" >> "$TARGET/debootstrap/debootstrap" >> cp $DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR/functions >> "$TARGET/debootstrap/functions" >> - cp $DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR/devices.tar.gz >> "$TARGET/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz" >> + cp $DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR/devices.tar.gz >> "$TARGET/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz" || true >> cp $SCRIPT >> "$TARGET/debootstrap/suite-script" >> echo "$ARCH" >"$TARGET/debootstrap/arch" >> echo "$SUITE" >> >"$TARGET/debootstrap/suite" >> -- >> 2.7.4 >> >> -- >> Alex Bennée >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> debhelper-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debhelper-devel >> -- Alex Bennée
