Your message dated Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:08:05 +0100 with message-id <87r3wwe2qi....@deep-thought.43-1.org> and subject line Re: Bug#769303: reverse override: aptitude:admin/standard aptitude-common:admin/standard has caused the Debian Bug report #769303, regarding reverse override: aptitude:admin/standard aptitude-common:admin/standard to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---package: ftp.debian.org severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: aptit...@packages.debian.org hello. it appears that downgrading the priority of aptitude and friends from important to to standard, we have caused this bug to resurface: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681347 [i tried stating that this problem happened again in the bug that was created to demote aptitude and aptitude-common from important to standard, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758561 , but the bug was archived with no resolution] in testing and unstable, debian-installer installations can no longer complete, because they hang at the "select and install" screen. this can be observed in /var/log/syslog: Sep 19 15:43:13 main-menu[4024]: INFO: Menu item 'pkgsel' selected Sep 19 15:43:15 pkgsel: checking for (security) updates to the base system Sep 19 15:43:16 in-target: Can't exec "aptitude": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress line 130, <STDIN> line 2. Sep 19 15:43:16 in-target: Use of uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress line 274, <STDIN> line 2. Sep 19 15:43:16 in-target: Use of uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress line 275, <STDIN> line 2. because aptitude is no longer "important", it wasn't installed into /target, and the screen's progress updates failed, hanging the install. debconf-apt-progress either needs to be switched to apt-get, to relieve the aptitude dependency, or aptitude needs to be marked as important again. this problem has existed for at least two months. david
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Default Identity <n...@photongenic.net> writes: > to keep from running into kernel module issues and things of the like, > the installers that i use [with a preseed that's dynamically generated > per release, per machine] are sourced from > dists/stable/main/installer-${arch}/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/${arch}/ > , which i use to stand up VMs in xen [also specifying > mirror/suite=${suite} as desired on the kernel cmdline]. > > with that change that was made in august [bug #758561], the stable > debian-installer image still expects aptitude to be present in /target, > but i'm guessing the dependency resolution doesn't bring it in [because > it's no longer essential], so the install falls on its face in the > stated way. > > the summary appears to be, due to the change made in august, stable > install media can no longer be used to install testing or unstable. I don't think using the stable installer to install anything but stable is supported. It might work, but it might just break too (thus closing this bug). The recommended way to install a testing/unstable system is to install stable and upgrade as far as I know. Ansgar
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