On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 09:40:58AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > At Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:42:52 -0700, > Matt Kraai wrote: > Hi, > > > > This bug is pretty difficult to fix, since we don't really have a > > > canonical list of packages that must be installed, and must not. > > > > > > Do you have a specific approach to this problem in mind? > > > > We could remove the packages that are installed but are not listed by > > debootstrap's --print-debs option. > > That's one way to approach the problem; we have other issues to be worried > about: > > > 1. debootstrap may be incorrect with --print-debs > (are we going to break pbuilder update every time debootstrap > chokes?)
You won't be able to update the chroot. Or we could add a flag to skip the debootstrap check, though I'd prefer not to. > 2. --print-debs will certainly not include things that > user chose to install as extra (such as fakeroot/linda/lintian) We could store a list in the chroot, similar to how aptitude does it. > If you have a good patch that addresses these problems, > that would be interesting to see; but my gut feeling > is that this is one of the more difficult problems to solve. I'll try to make one, but I'm going on vacation shortly (read: a few minutes) so it may take me a while. -- Matt
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