Public bug reported:
I'm having problem getting clean netinstall of Ubuntu 8.04 or 9.10
Server. I'm doing PXE boot and it is working fine. Everything goes ok
until tasksel. I can't do any offline boot method on this particular
machine - no floppy, no cd, no usb booting possible.
After selecting "nothing" or "OpenSSH server" I can't get mostly-
minimal install because "language-pack-gnome-en" is being installed at
some point causing a lot of unnecessary packages being installed as
dependencies (like openoffice.org, parts of x.org, whole bunch of gnome
related stuff and multimediamedia related stuff too - over 120 MB of
packages, 120-130 pieces).
What I have tried:
- different apt mirror
- different http proxy
- different Ubuntu versions (8.04 and 9.10)
- messing around with aptitude ("Manual package selection") during tasksel and
forcibly deselecting language-pack-gnome-* packages, which doesn't do anything,
they are installed anyway.
Steps required to reproduce:
- do a PXE boot netinstall of 8.04 or 9.10
- use pl.archive.ubuntu.com or de.archive.ubuntu.com as repositories, and use
any kind of http proxy to connect to them.
- during tasksel phase select nothing or OpenSSH Server
- wait
- note the moment where language-pack-gnome-en being installed and how much
dependencies it will cause.
I tried offline (usb,cd) installs of both editions on different machine
and those are working as expected. I'm ending up with very clean base
system without unnecessary packages not needed usually on server.
** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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netinstall and package dependencies problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518751
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