Re: Misc problems with b-f 2.3.6 install, hppa

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Richard Hirst wrote:
> > So, it would seem serial console installs remove base-config and
> > graphical ones don't...
> 
> Here is the code that gets run only on serial console systems:
> 
>         elif [ "$SERIALCONSOLE" ]; then
>                 (
>                         echo console-data purge
>                         echo console-tools purge
>                         echo console-tools-libs purge
>                 ) | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> I don't see how that could cause base-config to be removed.

Still seeing this problem, so I said no to removing the pkgs at the
end of install, and then tried to remove those three manually.

Turns out base-config depends on console-data.  Could that be relevant?

Cheers,
  Richard