** Description changed: After a clean installation I ran the cruft removal tool (from System->Administration) and a whole load of packages were ticked - I applied this and after 20 minutes saw that the majority of my installed desktop packages were removed. This cleaned up more than left over cruft(!). ISO test image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20081027/intrepid-desktop-amd64.iso Test: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/2092/10 + SUMMARY FOR SRU: A subset of users can render their systems unusable, by + accidentally removing some packages needed for the system to work or, in + some cases, all or most packages. This has been handled by checking that + two essential packages (dash and gzip) are available in the Packages + files, according to apt, and aborting if not. The regression risk for + this change is that users might not be able to use the tool at all if + the new test is too aggressive, but since update-manager uses the same + heuristic, it should work very well. + + PATCH: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~systemcleaner-hackers/systemcleaner + /intrepid-sru-1-proposal/changes (revision 108). + TEST CASE: Install without network access ("kvm -net none" suffices). After installation, install system-cleaner, and verify that "sudo system-cleaner find" finds a lot of cruft (at least several tens and possibly hundreds of packages). Install fixed system-cleaner (enabling networking is fine, as long as nothing runs "apt-get update"), and verify that "sudo system-cleaner find" returns nothing.
-- Cruft Remover removed most of the installed packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
