[debian-lan-devel] Debian-LAN ISO images

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Hi Benjamin,

thanks for your report.

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:40:53PM +0200, Benjamin Zach wrote:
>
> I am currently trying to setup a virtual machine as a debian-lan mainserver.
> Therefore I used the provided images, particularly I would like to run
> debian-lan_jessie_20150516.
> Unfortunately the fai-installation fails, showing the following messages in
> /tmp/fai/error.log:
>
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian/net/debian/dists/jessie-updates/InRelease
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian/net/dbian/dists/jessie-backports/InRelease
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/Release/gpg Could not
> resolve 'aptcache.intern'
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie/Release.gpg Could not resolve
> 'aptcache.intern'
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-updates/Release.gpg Could not
> resolve 'aptcache.intern'
> fai.log:W: Failed to fetch
> http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/Release.gpg Could not
> resolve 'aptcache.intern'
> fai.log:W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or
> old ones used instead
> (...)

It looks like there is no network available.  Can you check this,
perhaps from a virtual console during installation?

> This is then followed by a bunch of "Couldn't find any package whose name or
> description matched..." errors.
> Am I right with the assumption that the folder structure in the
> debian-jessie repository has been changed and therefore the urls saved in
> the iso can not be resolved, thus it is impossible to download the required
> packages afterwards? Is there a plan to update the iso-files if so or do you
> have any hints for me?

Hm, I see for example
"http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease" is missing here
(wget http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease), however
"http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease" is fine.
I want to work on debian-lan the next days (getting it ready for
stretch).   I can prepare a new CD within that process if the old one
really fails (I'll test).  In the meantime you can use the
'conversion' method described in [1]

Best regards,

     Andi



[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debian-lan.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian
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