I've managed to build debian-installer. One of the issues arising was
the too obsolete version of libdebian-installer4-udeb in the
dependencies of main-menu.udeb (>= 0.101), preventing the instalation of
some packages. Now, i'm uploading a nonofficial liveCD of Devuan in
amd64, including Netman and Xfce.

Download zone:

http://gnuinos.org/devuan/

Cheers,

Aitor.

On 10/16/2015 02:00 PM, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
> Hi Frits,
>
> - cdebootstrap deb package depends on libdebian-installer4 (>= 0.97)
>
> - main-menu udeb package depends on libdebian-installer4-udeb (>= 0.101)
>
> But the version of both 'libdebian-installer-extra4' and
> 'libdebian-installer-extra4-udeb' in Devuan's repository is 0.99+deb8u1.
> The sources of the package are right, becase debian/changelog says:
>
> libdebian-installer (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
>
> and debian/control:
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libdebian-installer4 (=
> ${binary:Version})
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libdebian-installer4-udeb
> (= ${binary:Version})
>
> for each package (libdebian-installer-extra4 and
> libdebian-installer-extra4-udeb, respectively). However, the versions of
> them in the repository (=0.99+deb8u1) don't correspond with the sources
> (=0.97).
>
> This fact would be the origin of the issue.
>
> Aitor.
>
> On 14/10/15 21:29, Godefridus Daalmans<frits@???> wrote:
>>> >>Hi,
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >a short update: Now I added the debian-installer component to my
>>>> >> >experimental live DVD, and I can try to do an installation, but it
>>>> >> >screws up in "installing the base system"
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
>>>> >> >base-installer: error: exiting on error
>>>> >> >base-installer/debootstrap-failed
>>>> >> >WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1
>>>> >> >WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >on the installation screen, it complained about the checksum of
>>>> >> >debian-installer/Packages.gz and debian-installer/Packages
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >This seems to be a recurring error over the years with Debian and
>>>> >> >Ubuntu...
>>>> >> >

>>>> >> >I verified the MD5 checksums and they are all OK, so that's not the
>>>> >> >*real*    problem.

>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >Any hints??
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >Frits