bug in netinstall?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> I tried to netinstall Ubuntu 5.10 but it wouldn't. In the second stage of
> the installation (after the reboot) it would come up with a
> 
> 'libesd-alsa0: Conflicts: libesd0 but 0.2.36-1ubuntu5 is to be installed.'
> 
> After a lot of debugging (as I don't know base-install), I found out that 
> this comes from
> 
> aptitude --without-recommends -y install '~tubuntu-standard|~tubuntu-desktop'
> 
> ... that is called through base-install.
> 
> After base-install bails out with an error, I end up with a sort-of
> non-installed system.
> 
> Would this mean the archive is B0rked?

Yes, unfortunately there's a known bug in the 5.10 archive at the moment
due to an attempt to fix Kubuntu and Edubuntu netboot installations,
which for somewhat complex reasons ended up breaking Ubuntu netboot. We
have a plan to fix this by reverting to the previous state of the
archive (and thereby unfortunately leaving Kubuntu and Edubuntu netboot
broken, but since they obviously weren't tested before release ...);
that plan is as far as I know in James Troup's hands at the moment.
James?

I've already fixed the root bug in Dapper, namely that the aptitude
pattern you quote above is insufficiently strict; this should allow us
to support Kubuntu and Edubuntu netboot properly. However, there's no
sane way to get this fix into a 5.10 update.

If you want to work around this for the time being, try putting this
line in a preseed file:

  base-config base-config/package-selection string ~t^ubuntu-standard$|~t^ubuntu-desktop$

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]