Hi, Quoting Benjamin Drung (2022-01-05 18:02:13) > mmdebstrap from Debian stable fails to run with --dry-run. Example: > > ``` > $ mmdebstrap -v --dry-run --variant=minbase unstable root.tar > [...] > Inst sysvinit-utils (3.01-1 Debian:unstable [amd64]) > Conf sysvinit-utils (3.01-1 Debian:unstable [amd64]) > I: skip extracting packages because of --dry-run > I: no essential packages -- skipping... > E: cannot read /var/cache/apt/archives/ > W: listening on child socket failed: > I: removing tempdir /tmp/mmdebstrap.e7VYvXTJ31... > ``` > > Running the same command on Debian unstable with mmdebstrap 0.8.2-1 > works, but backporting mmdebstrap >= 0.8 to Debian bullseye fails, > because mmdebstrap >= 0.8 requires a APT version that is newer than the > one shipped in bullseye.
yes, backporting is not an option. Luckily, the fix is trivial:
--- /usr/bin/mmdebstrap 2022-01-05 19:47:50.477129738 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/mmdebstrap.fixed 2022-01-05 19:47:43.277074092 +0000
@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@
# /var/cache/apt/archives/ might not be empty either because
# the user used hooks to populate it or because skip options
# like essential/unlink or check/empty were used.
- {
+ if (-e "$options->{root}/var/cache/apt/archives/") {
my $apt_archives = "/var/cache/apt/archives/";
opendir my $dh, "$options->{root}/$apt_archives"
or error "cannot read $apt_archives";
I'll ask the release team to also accept that fix in addition to what I already
proposed in #1003188.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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