Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:50:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I don't see the compiler. The first Etch install I did (back when it > was testing), it dragged in the compiler and would have taken me > something like 24 hrs to dow

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > That sounds plausible, but how do you know that? I was curious since > the "standard system" option apparently is new in the etch installer, > and previously I was used to not selecting anything from the tasksel > dialog. Anyway, bru

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 19:45:06 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > I just > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' This might work directly: aptitude -F '%pinstall' search '!~M~i' Some cleanup could be nice, though:

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:45:06PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > It seems to that a base install includes 'required' and 'important', > > > while 'standard' will add packages that are considered, well, standard > > > on a *nix

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > It seems to that a base install includes 'required' and 'important', > > while 'standard' will add packages that are considered, well, standard > > on a *nix system, but won't make it unusable if missing (e.g. bc, > > openbsd-ine

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:57:27AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Browsing the source, /usr/bin/tasksel, shows that selecting "standard > > system" ends up running aptitude with a set of search selecto

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Browsing the source, /usr/bin/tasksel, shows that selecting "standard > system" ends up running aptitude with a set of search selectors, > something like: > > aptitude --without-recommends -y install ~

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:22:21AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > The search subcommand can be used to list those packages: > > > > aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant > > > > though it's still not clear what is r

Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > The search subcommand can be used to list those packages: > > aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant > > though it's still not clear what is really added in this step, since > some of the packages were presumably install

etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-13 Thread Ken Irving
Just to update an old thread and scratch an itch... On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:05:18PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > 4. you can rerun tasksel and pick the standard system from there. > > Is "Standard System" one of the options when running tasksel again? I > don't s