[elbe-devel] [ISSUE] Initvm - Debian installer

[Torben Hohn]

Hi Olivier,

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:08:15PM +0200, Olivier Dion wrote:
> So this week I've lost an entire day because I needed to created a new
> initvm ..

bah. please notify me a bit earlier, when there are problems.

> 
> Everything work perfectly in Elbe v8 .. not on master
> 
> The first obvious problem, the 'key' tag is not preprocess in initvm.  You
> can cherry-pick a fix for that from branch devel/dion/fix-key, commit
> 97dd1d5912cf0c277e75f24eaa022a04e706f0ce.
> 
> Now that's out of the way, the Debian' installer is launching and fails
> at step 14 (installation of packages I think).  If you try to redo the
> step 14 in the installer it will fail again .. 1 hour later!  And that's
> not all.  There's _tons_ of packages missing.  Cherry on top,
> apt-listchanges is broken and you will only notice it once you've
> submitted something to initvm after the debootstrap step.

mmm... i hope its only confused by missing keys or packages.

> 
> So today I've decided to do a little bisection of master and well I am
> apparently to blame ..
> 
> Before jumping to conclusion, I would like to know if anyone has indeed
> the same problem that I am describing since I am not using Debian on my
> work station.

We forgot to handle the copying of the key into the right place.
The debian-installer preseed code only handles urls. And it now just
ignores them.


However, for the CDROM build, we already have code in place, that takes
a key from the cdrom, and copies it to the right place, at the right
time.

the relevant files are:

elbepack/commands/init.py

elbepack/init/Makefile.mako
elbepack/init/preseed.cfg.mako

please just extract the key(s) from the xml file, and then you can put
it into os.path.join(out_path, "elbe-keyring.gpg")

look for some "%if opt.cdrom:" lines, and remove the ifs, because
the relevant keys will now reside in elbe-keyring.gpg in any case.

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