Bug#240700: base-config: tasksel package selection does not revert to 'standard' internally when interrupted
Package: base-config
Version: 2.12
Severity: normal
(OK, so I've encountered this bug a while ago (in Beta2) but forgot to
report it. I did not have the time yet to reproduce it in Beta3, so
please forgive me if this is bogus)
I tried to install d-i on a small partition a while ago. I chose
'tasksel' and then by accident X-Window-System and Laptop (I think).
Anyway, when I saw apt-get doing it's job I realized that my partition
was too small and interrupted APT. I then got bumped back to
base-config's package selection. I again chose tasksel.
I'm not entirely sure whether the tasks I chose were still selected, but
I definetely had them all deselected when I ran 'install packages'
again. No Still, APT wanted to install all the X packages.
I also chose aptitude later on, and while I was not really 100% sure
that the packages were really deselected, I believe they were. Still,
APT installed all the tasks I selected in tasksel initially.
While I agree that this is a corner case, I still believe this to be a
bug which should be fixed eventually.
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups
ii apt 0.5.22 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii aptitude 0.2.14-3 curses-based apt frontend
ii bsdutils 1:2.12-6 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii console-data 2002.12.04dbs-29 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-48 Linux console and font utilities
ii debconf 1.4.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.7.4-0.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii gettext-base 0.14.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii passwd 1:4.0.3-17 Change and administer password and
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