Ubuntu
eglibc package

debootstrap fails trying to install libc6

Bug #803159 reported by Serge Hallyn on 2011-06-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #802985: [lucid] /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 399: arithmetic expression: expecting EOF: "3.0-0-generic". Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	eglibc (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When, on an oneiric system, I run

debootstrap --components=main,universe natty natty

I get:

W: Failure trying to run: chroot /root/natty dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-0ubuntu13_amd64.deb

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote on 2011-06-28:

Oops, never mind, I see now it appears to be a bug in glibc.

affects:

debootstrap (Ubuntu) → eglibc (Ubuntu)

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote on 2011-06-28:

There is a fix in the package for oneiric, but there is no associatd lp bug #, so I assume it wasn't going to be SRUd. Not SRUing it will prevent chroots on an oneiric host (as when debootstraping an older release on oneiric) from installing eglibc.