On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:32:42PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: >On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:32:26AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[..] >> Holger has added these now. I'm curious why you thing these packages >> in particular need to be on the netinst itself, though - can't you >> just grab from the network? > >Debian Edu modifies di via debian-edu-profile-udeb; this part of the >debian-edu-profile code explains the issue: > >case "$server" in > "true") > # install exim4-daemon-heavy early. > db_set "base-installer/includes" "exim4-daemon-heavy" > ;; >esac > >The 'server' variable is set to true in case the 'Main-Server' profile >has been chosen. > >And the base-installer expects all needed packages to be on the image >and doesn't try to fetch from the network; apt-setup happens later on >(iirc).
OK, I guess. Wouldn't it maybe make more sense to just add this kind of thing to a task rather than modifying the base-install package set? >> The set of debian-edu packages are making the netinst quite a lot >> larger than the normal Debian netinst already, which is surprising! > >It's supposed to be so due to the 'debian-edu-config' package beeing >included with the image and debian-cd pulling in all depends and >recommends recursively. > >You can lean back now, guys: the installation of a Debian Edu combined >server (profiles 'Main-Server', 'Workstation', 'LTSP-Server') just >happened to finish with success. > >Great job done! Thanks a lot! Woo! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
