#1070877 debian-installer: xfsprogs not available in the installer, but xfs fs type available, mkfs fails

Package:
debian-installer
Source:
debian-installer
Description:
Debian Installer documentation
Submitter:
Witold Baryluk
Date:
2024-05-11 05:36:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1070877#5
Date:
2024-05-11 04:52:14 UTC
From:
To:
This is against di in testing, for trixie. netinst iso
from 2024-05-10.

xfs-modules 6.7.12-1
libparted2-udev 3.6-4
partman-auto 164
partman-auto-raid 52
partman-base 227
partman-utils 227
partman-basicfilesystems 165
partman-basicmethods 75
partman-btrfs 60
partman-cros 6
partman-efi 103
partman-ext3 113
partman-iscsi 77
partman-jfs 63
partman-md 107
partman-partitioning 151
partman-target 128
partman-xfs 69
partman-xfsprogs-udev 6.7.0-2




There are some other bugs, related to xfs, but not quite like this.

For example there is a separate bug that causes xfsprogs to not be
installed in target (which is fine to do by default, but not when one
has at least 1 xfs file system configured in target tree).


My problem is that one cannot even create xfs in partman.

If one selects Use as: XFS file system, and then continue
it will fail with fatal error, and no help either in partman,
installer or in logs.

I figured out that this is because mkfs.xfs is not available
in the installer environment.

Which is weird, because xfsprogs-udev is there.


No issues with btrfs, ext2-4, fat, jfs. They are available by default.


Regards,
Witold

#1070877#10
Date:
2024-05-11 05:33:38 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Witold,

And thanks for your report.

Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com> (2024-05-11):

This is #1070795.

Such bug reports would ideally be filed with:

  X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org


Cheers,