[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#569121: tasksel: busybox is not included in base list

[Vagrant Cascadian]

retitle 569121 simple-cdd: missing busybox
thanks

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:28:12AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Prema wrote:
> > I created a squeeze image using simple-cdd (without passing any
> > "profile" option)

could you tell us what arguments you used, if any?

what version of simple-cdd and debian-cd you have installed?

> > ..and i expected that to install atleast a base system.
> > But the installation stopped in the middle throwing an error "Package
> > busybox is missing" ..I hope this happens because of missing "busybox"
> > entry in the file base-squeeze.

where exactly did you get this error message?

can you check if busybox was actually present on the CD image?

after working around a problem with the bootloader (seems debian-cd in sid
needs to be updated), i was able to install without problem.
 
> Sounds like a bug in simple-cdd as there's no problem with regular Debian 
> CDs as far as I know. Reassigning accordingly.

i believe the "regular Debian CDs" use debian-cd from svn and debian-installer
from the daily/weekly builds, and simple-cdd just uses debian-cd and
debian-installer from the archive.

unfortunately because of that, simple-cdd is rather difficult to test in
testing/unstable without manual configuration and preparation by the user
(though generally works with stable releases).

could you try again with profiles/default.conf:

  # use daily built debian-installer images
  export DI_WWW_HOME="default"
  # use an alternate copy of debian-cd 
  debian_cd_dir=/path/to/debian-cd

where /path/to/debian-cd is a directory created with:

 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debian-cd/trunk debian-cd 

see if that works any better?

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