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Re: installation Profiles and Tasks



"Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:

> If we want to avoid dselect, the "access" and "update" parts from the
> apt-get access method have to be ripped of, so that configuration of
> sources.list can be done (and some way to make the user register CDs
> with apt-cdrom). Or is this already been taken care of in an earlier
> point of installation?

Yes, that's true... We'd need a simple sources.list configurator.
Bonus: ability to load sources.list from somewhere off the network
(again, part of the whole non-interactive install problem).

> OK, so this mandatory task package with the >standard packages is
> needed, as dselect will not be used, and apt-get -f install won't
> install them all.

Interesting point.  Hadn't thought of that.  Theoretically, this list
can be automatically generated.  Note it will vary by architecture.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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