On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:14, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > The cause is that when tasksel is run within g-i, two basic package > > management steps are never executed: > > - extracting templates from packages > > - preconfiguring packages > > One way this could happen is if apt-utils is for some reason not > previously installed. Do you still have the complete log to check if it > is installed?
That's probably not it:
$ wcgrep apt-utils dict-common_syslog_reproduced
dict-common_syslog_reproduced:1180:Dec 12 07:11:38 debootstrap: Selecting
previously deselected package apt-utils.
dict-common_syslog_reproduced:1181:Dec 12 07:11:38 debootstrap: Unpacking
apt-utils (from .../apt-utils_0.6.46.4_i386.deb) ...
dict-common_syslog_reproduced:1437:Dec 12 07:12:47 debootstrap: Setting up
apt-utils (0.6.46.4) ...
Also:
<cjwatson> you'd get a warning, wouldn't you?
<cjwatson> if (! -x "/usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates") {
<cjwatson> warn gettext("delaying package configuration, since
apt-utils is not installed");
<cjwatson> exit;
<cjwatson> }
<cjwatson> the only path I could see in dpkg-preconfigure that wouldn't produce
a warning was if it couldn't read anything from the apt pipe
<cjwatson> was wondering if fd wackiness in the gtk frontend might cause that
<joeyh> there seems to be something nondeterministic in the picture..
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