[Simple-cdd-devel] Package location failure building stretch

Mon May 8 12:19:56 UTC 2017

I've been trying to use build-simple-cdd to build a custom platform image
using stretch. I'm basing this on a github repo for building a custom image
for an SBC:
https://github.com/ssinyagin/pcengines-apu-debian-cd

I'm building with the following command:

build-simple-cdd --conf profiles/apu64.conf --dist stretch --force-root

The problem that occurs is that the build fails to find a package from the
mirror (task-desktop) and the result is that the default_desktop variable
is unset:

runcmd:
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/log/build-debian-cd
 stdout: Missing package file for amd64/non-free.
 stdout: simple-cdd: Running debian-cd makefile
 stdout: Cleaning the build directory
 stdout: Updating task files...
 stdout: - copying task files from 'tasks/stretch/'
 stdout: - generating dynamic task files
 stderr: which_deb: can't find binary file(s) for task-desktop in stretch
 stderr: dpkg-deb: error: error reading archive magic version number from
file /home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror/: Is a
     directory
 stdout: update_tasks: Using "" as the default desktop, as specified by
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $default_desktop in concatenation (.)
or string at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/
tools/update_tasks line 66.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $default_desktop in concatenation (.)
or string at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/
tools/update_tasks line 150.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $default_desktop in concatenation (.)
or string at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/
tools/update_tasks line 180.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $default_desktop in regexp compilation
at /home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/
     update_tasks line 239.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $default_desktop in regexp compilation
at /home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/
     update_tasks line 239.
...

The errors above are repeated for several hundred lines. The tail end of
the log:

 stdout: Missing package file for amd64/non-free.
 stdout: Generating a fake status file for apt-get and apt-cache...
 stdout: :>
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/apt/status
 stdout: # Set up keyring so apt doesn't complain
 stdout: Setting up archive-keyring
 stdout: # Updating the apt database
 stdout: Get:1
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
InRelease
 stdout: Ign:1
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
InRelease
 stdout: Get:2
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release [2,244 B]
 stdout: Get:2
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release [2,244 B]
 stdout: Get:3
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release.gpg
 stdout: Ign:3
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release.gpg
 stdout: Get:4
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror
stretch/main amd64 Packages [128 kB]
 stdout: Get:5
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror
stretch/non-free amd64 Packages [6,213 B]
 stdout: Get:6
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror
stretch/main/debian-installer amd64 Packages [79.7 kB]
 stdout: Reading package lists...
 stderr: W: The repository
'file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release' is not signed.
 stdout: # If we're doing a build using d-i from sid, we'll need sid
sources too
 stdout: if [ ""x = "yes"x ] && \
 stdout:     [ "stretch"x != ""x ] && \
 stdout:     [ "stretch"x != "stretch"x ] ; then \
 stdout:     mkdir -p
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/apt/stretch-source/apt/preferences.d
; \
 stdout:     :>
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/apt/stretch-source/status
; \
 stdout:     export CODENAME=stretch; \
 stdout:     export ARCH=source; \
 stdout:
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/apt-selection
update; \
 stdout:     if [ "$BACKPORTS"x != ""x ] ; then \
 stdout:         USE_BP=1
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/apt-selection
update; \
 stdout:     fi; \
 stdout: fi
 stdout: Reading package lists...
 stdout: Building dependency tree...
 stdout: Apt-get is updating its files ...
 stdout: Get:1
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
InRelease
 stdout: Ign:1
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
InRelease
 stdout: Get:2
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release [2,244 B]
 stdout: Get:2
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release [2,244 B]
 stdout: Get:3
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release.gpg
 stdout: Ign:3
file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release.gpg
 stdout: Reading package lists...
 stderr: W: The repository
'file:/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/mirror stretch
Release' is not signed.
 stdout: Generating the complete list of packages to be included in
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/list...
stdout:
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/check_backports_packages
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/
tmp/cd-build/stretch/list
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/list.backports
 stdout: if [ -f
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/list.backports
]; then mv /home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-
debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/list.backports
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/list;
fi
 stdout: Running sort_deps to sort packages for amd64:
 stdout:   Generating dependency tree with apt-cache depends...
 stdout:   Adding standard, required, important and base packages first
 stdout:   S/R/I/B packages take 0 bytes
 stdout:   Adding the rest of the requested packages
 stdout:   Now up to 173067532 bytes
 stdout: Done: processed/sorted 485 packages, total size 173067532 bytes.
 stderr: Can't exec "xorriso": No such file or directory at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/tools/
make_disc_trees.pl line   95.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $mkisofs_version in concatenation (.)
or string at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/     tools/
make_disc_trees.pl line 96.
 stderr: Use of uninitialized value $mkisofs_version in concatenation (.)
or string at
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/     tools/
make_disc_trees.pl line 97.
 stdout: xorriso -version says:
 stdout:
 stdout: Reading in package information for amd64:
 stdout:   Done: Read details of 485 packages for amd64
 stdout: WARNING: no translated descriptions found for stretch/main
 stdout: WARNING: no translated descriptions found for stretch/non-free
 stdout: Starting to lay out packages into images:
 stdout:   Adding the required directories
 stdout:   Generating the image label and volume id
 stdout:   Adding .disk/base_components
 stdout:   Adding .disk/cd_type
 stdout:   Adding udeb/base includes/excludes
 stdout: WARNING: Unable to read UDEB_EXCLUDE file
/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/debian-cd/data/stretch/amd64_netinst_udeb_exclude
 stdout:   Adding docs to CD1
 stdout:   Extracting FAQ on CD1
 stderr: mkdir: cannot create directory
'/home/odhinn/development/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tmp/cd-build/stretch/CD1/doc/FAQ/html':
No such file or          directory
 stderr:     Failed to start disc 1, error 256
 stdout: Makefile:465: recipe for target 'image-trees' failed
 stderr: make: *** [image-trees] Error 1
 retval: 2

Relevant portion of the preseed file:

 d-i mirror/protocol string http
 d-i mirror/country string manual
 d-i mirror/http/hostname string httpredir.debian.org
 d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian
 d-i mirror/http/proxy string
 d-i mirror/suite string stretch
 d-i mirror/udeb/suite string stretch

 tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ssh-server
 d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none

I have tried using 'testing' instead of stretch, defining a desktop
environment in the preseed file, etc.

Doing an apt-cache search for task-desktop reveals that it is available,
but not where it is located on the mirror.

The VM (host) is a Debian stretch instance:

Linux qs-stretch 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1 (2017-03-30) x86_64
GNU/Linux
...
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
Release: 9.0
Codename: stretch

Any recommendations? I'm sure this hasn't been fully tested considering the
state of stretch.

-- 
Scott Wohler
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