On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report#379067: netinst CD should not be added to sources list of target system,which was filed against the apt-setup package. It has been closed by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>. Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> by replying to this email. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Date: July 24, 2006 11:41:36 AM EDT To: 379067-done@bugs.debian.orgSubject: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc, lspcilspci is present in current daily builds. Closing this bug. -- see shy jo
Well actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. As noted elsewhere, lspci is pulled in by the "Desktop" task. It's not present in the "bare-bones" ("Desktop" un-checked) install (as one might want to use for a simple server -- a case where you might actually want "lspci" and friends to be present...)
So to put the problem as simply as possible:The command "lspci" is present during the installation. But after the reboot, whether lspci is present or absent depends on whether the user left the "Desktop environment" checked when the installer was running tasksel. If it was checked, then lspci will be present in the installed system after the reboot. If it was not checked, then lspci will be absent after the reboot.
It seems to me that lspci is such a basic tool that it ought to be present in the bare-bones system, not dragged in as an afterthought by the Desktop task.
As I understand it (Debian bug processing is still a bit of a mystery to me...) the above is what bug#379120 is all about -- so closing 379067 (which is about whether or not to put a "deb cdrom" into the installed sources.list file when installing from a netinst CD, but also mentions the lspci question in passing) is correct, but this is not the correct reason.
Enjoy! Rick