lb build fails to build netboot binaries

[Daniel Speichert]

Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
live-build: Installed: 3.0~a57-1ubuntu6

Log:
grid-controller# lb clean
grid-controller# lb config -b netboot --net-root-path "/srv/debian-live" --net-root-server "129.25.203.197" --distribution quantal
grid-controller# lb build
<cropped>
Setting up memtest86+ (4.20-1.1ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up gfxboot (4.5.0-3) ...
Setting up gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.14.3) ...
Setting up syslinux-common (2:4.05+dfsg-6) ...
Setting up syslinux (2:4.05+dfsg-6) ...
Setting up syslinux-themes-ubuntu-oneiric (5) ...
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric/pxelinux-live': No such file or directory
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
P: Saving caches...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

The process fails because of that error: cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/syslinux/themes/ubuntu-oneiric/pxelinux-live': No such file or directory

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Wyllys Ingersoll (wyllys66)]

Its been 2 years since this was filed and Im still seeing this happen with Ubuntu 14.04. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

ubuntu does not use live-build for bootable images, only to create rootfs'es ...

bootability happens from the debian-cd wrapper that uses the rootfs created by live-build (netboot is even completely created by debian-cd from a debian-installer build) unless the complete infrastrucure ubuntu uses to build images gets changed to not use debian-cd for this step, i doubt there is big interest in adding such functionality to live-build ... (patches accepted as usual indeed)