[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#509643: ltsp-server: --dist testing fails

[Ross Boylan]

Package: ltsp-server
Version: 5.1.10-2
Severity: normal

Here's part of the terminal session:

corn:/usr/local/src# date; rm -rf /usr/local/var/tsp; time ltsp-build-client --base /usr/local/var/tsp --dist testing
Tue Dec 23 18:08:44 PST 2008
NOTE: adding default dist and components to security mirror:
http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
ERROR: invalid distribution: testing
you may need to specify the distribution with the --dist argument:
  /usr/sbin/ltsp-build-client --dist etch
error: LTSP client installation ended abnormally

real	0m4.034s
user	0m1.432s
sys	0m1.436s
corn:/usr/local/src# date; rm -rf /usr/local/var/tsp; time ltsp-build-client --base /usr/local/var/tsp --dist lenny
Tue Dec 23 18:09:21 PST 2008
NOTE: adding default dist and components to security mirror:
http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
..... etc

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ltsp-server depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debconf-utils                 1.5.24     debconf utilities
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.10     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gettext-base                  0.17-4     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii  lsb-release                   3.2-20     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  openssh-client                1:5.1p1-4  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  python                        2.5.2-3    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  tcpd                          7.6.q-16   Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit
ii  update-inetd                  4.31       inetd configuration file updater

Versions of packages ltsp-server recommends:
ii  nbd-server               1:2.9.11-1      the Network Block Device server
ii  nfs-kernel-server        1:1.1.2-6lenny1 support for NFS kernel server
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-supe 0.20080125-1    The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
ii  openssh-server           1:5.1p1-4       secure shell server, an rshd repla
ii  squashfs-tools           1:3.3-7         Tool to create and append to squas
ii  tftpd-hpa                0.48-2.3        HPA's tftp server

Versions of packages ltsp-server suggests:
pn  audiooss                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  dhcp3-server                  3.1.1-5    DHCP server for automatic IP addre
ii  esound-clients                0.2.36-3   Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients
pn  libasound2-plugins            <none>     (no description available)
pn  ltspfs                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  sdm                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-2  X authentication utility

-- debconf information:
  ltsp-server/build_client: false