[Libguestfs] fedoostrap or deboostrap requirement

Thu Jul 30 23:03:18 UTC 2009

Guido Günther wrote:

Looks like the real problem is due to debootstrap's --variant=fakechroot 
not detecting any base dependencies - Full details below.

> Hi Aron,
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:39:50AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> [..snip..] 
>   
>> Does Guido's patch still "solve" the problem if it's written:
>>
>> -       smallyes '' | in_target dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@")
>> +       smallyes '' | chroot $TARGET dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@")
>>
>>     
this one works
>> or alternatively, does this work as well as Guido's patch:
>>
>> -       smallyes '' | in_target dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@")
>> +       in_target dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@")
>>
>>     
this one not

BUT !!!!
even with :
    smallyes '' | chroot $TARGET dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor 
"$@")
and:
    chroot $TARGET dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@") the 
problem is not really solved (it just omits the warning message before 
aborting installation)!!!
the "debirf make -n debian" command just ends
with:
...
I: Installing core packages...
#

while with original :
    smallyes '' | in_target dpkg --force-depends --install $(debfor "$@")
it ends with:
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny3_amd64.deb 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.20_amd64.deb
#

but AFAICT sucessfull debirf command should end with:
...
I: Installing core packages...
I: Unpacking required packages...
...
I: Configuring required packages...
...
I: Unpacking the base system...
...
I: Configuring the base system...
....
I: Base system installed successfully.
#

the command internal debirf command ends with same:
    fakechroot sh -x /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot 
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --include=less  
--exclude=apt-utils,bsdmainutils,cron,ed,info,logrotate,man-db,manpages,tasksel,tasksel-data,tcpd,traceroute 
lenny debian/root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny3_amd64.deb 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.20_amd64.deb
#

while with sh -x before debootstrap:
    fakechroot sh -x /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot 
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --include=less  
--exclude=apt-utils,bsdmainutils,cron,ed,info,logrotate,man-db,manpages,tasksel,tasksel-data,tcpd,traceroute 
lenny debian/root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
...
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny3_amd64.deb 
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.20_amd64.deb
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.25_amd64.deb
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_amd64.deb
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.10.0-19_amd64.deb
W: Failure trying to run: chroot 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-1.0.64/work/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance/debian/root 
dpkg --force-depends --install 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mawk_1.3.3-11.1_amd64.deb
I: Unpacking required packages...
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up 
to five times.
I: Configuring required packages...
W: Failure while configuring required packages.
I: Unpacking the base system...
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up 
to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up 
to five times.
I: Configuring the base system...
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
W: Failure while configuring base packages.
I: Base system installed successfully.
#

Looks like bash glitches...

Another thing to note (and which seems to be source of the problem) is 
that debootstrap with --variant=fakechroot does not find any additional 
base dependencies, while
with --variant=minbase|buildd it does and works correctly!!!

for example with -variant=minbase it finds:
...
I: Found additional base dependencies: debian-archive-keyring gnupg gpgv 
libbz2-1.0 libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 readline-common
...
#

And the following command installs the base system OK:
/usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=minbase 
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --include=less 
--exclude=apt-utils,bsdmainutils,cron,ed,info,logrotate,man-db,manpages,tasksel,tasksel-data,tcpd,traceroute 
lenny debian/root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

Here is the output with --variant=fakechroot  & --print-debs:

# fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot --print-debs 
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --include=less 
--exclude=apt-utils,bsdmainutils,cron,ed,info,logrotate,man-db,manpages,tasksel,tasksel-data,tcpd,traceroute 
lenny debian/root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
gpgv: Signature made Sat 27 Jun 2009 09:18:39 PM IDT using RSA key ID 
55BE302B
gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key 
(5.0/lenny) <ftpmaster at debian.org>"
gpgv: Signature made Sat 27 Jun 2009 09:31:45 PM IDT using DSA key ID 
F42584E6
gpgv: Good signature from "Lenny Stable Release Key 
<debian-release at lists.debian.org>"
I: Valid Release signature (key id 7F5A44454C724A65CBCD4FB14D270D06F42584E6)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
base-files base-passwd bash binutils bsdutils coreutils debconf 
debconf-i18n debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils 
gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base grep gzip hostname initscripts libacl1 
libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libcomerr2 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 
liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libpam0g libpam-modules 
libpam-runtime libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libstdc++6 
libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid1 
login lsb-base lzma makedev mawk mktemp mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin 
passwd perl-base procps sed sysvinit sysvinit-utils sysv-rc tar tzdata 
util-linux zlib1g adduser apt aptitude cpio debian-archive-keyring 
dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dmidecode gnupg gpgv groff-base ifupdown 
iproute iptables iputils-ping less libbz2-1.0 libconsole libcwidget3 
libept0 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libncursesw5 
libnewt0.52 libpopt0 libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 
libssl0.9.8 libtasn1-3 libusb-0.1-4 libwrap0 libxapian15 
module-init-tools nano netbase netcat-traditional net-tools 
readline-common rsyslog update-inetd vim-common vim-tiny wget whiptail
I: Deleting target directory
#

  And  the output with --variant=minbase  & --print-debs (notice the 
additional - I: Found additional base dependencies: .. - line)

# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=minbase --print-debs 
--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --include=less 
--exclude=apt-utils,bsdmainutils,cron,ed,info,logrotate,man-db,manpages,tasksel,tasksel-data,tcpd,traceroute 
lenny debian/root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
gpgv: Signature made Sat 27 Jun 2009 09:18:39 PM IDT using RSA key ID 
55BE302B
gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key 
(5.0/lenny) <ftpmaster at debian.org>"
gpgv: Signature made Sat 27 Jun 2009 09:31:45 PM IDT using DSA key ID 
F42584E6
gpgv: Good signature from "Lenny Stable Release Key 
<debian-release at lists.debian.org>"
I: Valid Release signature (key id 7F5A44454C724A65CBCD4FB14D270D06F42584E6)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional base dependencies: debian-archive-keyring gnupg gpgv 
libbz2-1.0 libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 readline-common
base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils debconf debconf-i18n 
debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils gcc-4.2-base 
gcc-4.3-base grep gzip hostname initscripts libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 
libc6 libcomerr2 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 
liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libpam0g libpam-modules 
libpam-runtime libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libstdc++6 
libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid1 
login lsb-base lzma makedev mawk mktemp mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin 
passwd perl-base procps sed sysvinit sysvinit-utils sysv-rc tar tzdata 
util-linux zlib1g apt debian-archive-keyring gnupg gpgv less libbz2-1.0 
libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 readline-common
I: Deleting target directory
#

 So problem must be due to debootstrap's --variant=fakechroot not 
detecting any base dependencies.
And currently I can't proceed without this problem being solved.

 Thanks
 Alex