Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org): > > > In tasksel, I was suprised to see it did not select the laptop task. > > This turns out to be due to this in the logs. Some read error > > from the iso on the USB key (which had successfully installed another > > machine), which caused laptop-detect to fail to install, w/o indicating > > it to the user. > > From what I read in scripts, laptop-detect is "simply" installed in > pre-pkgsel.d, with "apt-install laptop-detect". From my understanding, > if that fails, the user will be notified.....so, the only explanation > I see is that laptop-detect postinst exited normally even though the > package wasn't installed properly. Is this the correct interpretation? From what I can see in the log, the deb could not be copied from the usb stick at all, so its postinst never got a chance to run. Dpkg and apt should, AFAIK, exit nonzero in that situation. -- see shy jo
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