Installation of daily build 10/14 fails

[b sanders]

Trying the daily build, either using the cd alone or with network repositories enabled, fails with the same error condition:

Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: yelp zenity zip
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: E:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: Couldn't find task edubuntu-standard
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: E:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: Couldn't find task kubuntu-standard
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: E:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: Couldn't find task xubuntu-standard
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target:
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: 0 upgraded, 654 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Oct 15 07:24:42 in-target: tasksel: aptitude failed (100)
Oct 15 07:24:43 main-menu[3323]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 1
Oct 15 07:24:43 main-menu[3323]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.

This error occurs even when trying to build a server. Moving on in the process and installing grub works fine.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

This needs checking, but if correct is certainly RC.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Confirmed (not in practice, but by code inspection). Braindump from IRC:

<Kamion> I see what might be causing that. Hmm. Hmm.
<Kamion> aptitude doesn't fail if the task is missing. apt-get does ...
<Kamion> the fix might be to drop the stupid derivative-specific *-standard tasks and replace them with a single standard task
<Kamion> since they're all the same anyway

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

revno: 839
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: edgy
timestamp: Sun 2006-10-15 21:30:05 +0100
message:
  standard task should no longer be per-derivative (#66214)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

tasksel (2.50ubuntu7) edgy; urgency=low

  * Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, collapsing *-standard into a single
    standard task (closes: Malone #66214).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:50:31 +0100