offline repo: don't gzip package list

create_offlinerepo.sh

@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ apt-get -o Dir="$workspace"/offlinerepo/squashfs-root update
 apt-get -o Dir="$workspace"/offlinerepo/squashfs-root install --reinstall --print-uris -qq $packages
 
 mkdir -p "$dest/dists/$DISTRIB_CODENAME/lip/binary-amd64"
-( cd "$dest" && dpkg-scanpackages . | gzip > "dists/$DISTRIB_CODENAME/lip/binary-amd64/Packages.gz" )
+# For some reason apt does not like the gziped package list in the installed system. Leaving the packages list uncompressed solves the problem.
+#( cd "$dest" && dpkg-scanpackages . | gzip > "dists/$DISTRIB_CODENAME/lip/binary-amd64/Packages.gz" )
+( cd "$dest" && dpkg-scanpackages . > "dists/$DISTRIB_CODENAME/lip/binary-amd64/Packages" )
 
 cat <<EOF > "$dest/dists/$DISTRIB_CODENAME/lip/binary-amd64/Release"
 Archive: $DISTRIB_CODENAME