On Thursday 04 February 2010, Geek87 wrote: > I've been looking at debootstrap and cdebootstrap sources and the code > is too complex for a non initiate like me. But it seems that the > automatically installed state of the packages is kept > in /var/lib/apt/extended_states. I don't know if we have to manually add > an entry in this file for every package we install, or if we have to ask > apt-mark or aptitude to do this for us. If a (c)debootstrap developer > can answer me and try to explain me the functioning of the software or > at least the big steps of the process, maybe I can try to patch it but I > can't promise anything as I'm not an experiment coder.
That's not the issue. The problem is that by doing that you'd be interfering manually with basic package management. You're most definitely *not* allowed to directly edit files like /var/lib/apt/extended_states. See also the other reply I just sent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
