Bug#293008: Sarge Installation Report: succes, but strange tasksel behavior
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:48:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> This would be the standard aptitude y/n prompt shown when aptitude
> remove is run.
>
> Tasksel does allow you to de-select tasks to remove them, but at least
> in my testing, in English, aptitude honors an "n" at the prompt.
>
> root@dragon:/home/joey>tasksel remove print-server
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data foomatic-db foomatic-filters gksu hpijs
> libcupsimage2 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 libslp1 pax python-foomatic
> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
> lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics lsbdev
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint
> foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui
> lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics lsbdev
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 24 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 51.3MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
> Abort.
Sorry that my previous reports on this bug where not very clear.
I wil try to describe more exact what happened in the US English/QWERTY
install of Friday 4 Feb 2005 (based on the sarge-CD iso1 downloaded
22 Jan 2005). I did not post a full installation report about this
install of 4 Feb 2005, only an annotation to this earlier bug report.
* date of install and of bug: 4 Feb 2005
* system description: x86, PCI, Parallel ATA, ... (standard "PC")
* "English US" as language
* "us" (pc 104) as keyboard
* "Brussels" as TimeZone
* finalized regular install
* so I got a root prompt
* I typed tasksel with no further arguments
linux-box:~# tasksel
* I got the regular tasksel ncurses screen
* I selected
[*] Desktop
[*] Mail server
[*] File server
* IIRC, I pressed <Enter> to continue
* then in text mode, I saw messages similar to those above
* and I got the question "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]"
* because these would install a lot of packages and time was limited,
I wanted to change my mind and *not* go further.
* I pressed 'n' (and I watched very, very closely as I had observed
this problem before; I also had a witness, watching the install to
learn how to install Debian, who also saw me type 'n')
* I don't recall if I pressed <Enter> too, or only the single letter 'n'
* very strangely the installation happily continued with downloading,
unpacking and installing all planned packages
I have no short term access to any of the 2 machines on which I had the
problem. Next Wednesday (9 Feb 2005) I have access to the box with the
original Dutch language installation about which I originally filed this
bug.
My conclusions (from my limited experience):
* this bug is probably not related to language or translation
(the bug appeared on a Dutch and an English install)
* this bug is probably related to aptitude and not to tasksel
Hope This Helps. I can do more tests on Wednesday 9 Feb 2005 if needed.
Peter
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