On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 01:42, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de>
wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:31:42 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 23:59, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> > Has anybody gotten dpkg path-exclude to work?
> >>
> >> Yes. It's been a long time that I have not used it but the main problem
> >> is that to be effective the option must be used right from the start
> (i.e.
> >> already at the debootstrap stage) otherwise you have to manually cleanup
> >> the excluded files (at the time when you put the option in dpkg's
> >> configuration file).
> >>
> >> (I don't remember if reinstalling all the packaes achieves the desired
> >> result too)
> >>
> >
> >It does.
>
> Can you share some command lines and/or scripts and/or configuration
> files please?
>
Ubuntu's minimal images run something like
chroot chroot dpkg-query -f '${binary:Package}\n' -W | chroot chroot xargs
apt-get install --reinstall
after running deboostrap and setting up the includes. The gory details are
around here:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/bionic-proposed/view/head:/live-build/auto/build#L100
Cheers,
mwh
