On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:32:27PM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > INSTALL REPORT > > Installation was very smooth. One very strange hick-up of tasksel > at the end (or /me getting too old to touch computers ?).
... > At the end of the install, I acitvated tasksel with it's default set-up > (only "Mail server" activated). The system went on to correctly install > the additional packages. > > After that, from a root prompt (obviously in console since no X was > installed yet), I ran tasksel. Tasksel came with Dutch language support. > Then a very funny thing happened. > > * I selected "Workstation" and did not select "Mail server" > > the system proposed to install a lot of X related packages and to > *remove* exim. I was not aware that tasksel also removes packages ... > (by now I understand that it probably was removing exim in favor of > exim4). > > Anyway, since I did not want exim to be removed, I pressed 'n' (I am > quite sure I did press 'n', since I was unhappy that the system would > remove my already configured exim) but still the system continued with > downloading, installing and removing the packages as it had announced > ... (or maybe I am just loosing it ... but I am really sure I pressed > 'n' since I was a little upset that tasksel would *remove* a package). Today, I executed a Sarge install on a different system, with US English as locale. Again, I ran tasksel after finishing the base install, pressed 'n' and the tasksel happily continued the installation (so it's not me getting too old to touch computers :-) I heard no reaction on my previous post about this bug. Should I file this bug against tasksel ? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
