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Bug#138443: debootstrap using files for list of packages to include/exclude



Control: tag -1 moreinfo

Hi,

Julien Herfurth <jherfurth@arafox.com> (2002-03-15):
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 0.1.16.3
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Here is a patch that add 2 options so you can get the list of packages to
> include/exclude from files.
> 
> --- debootstrap.orig	Fri Mar 15 12:55:29 2002
> +++ debootstrap	Fri Mar 15 13:20:30 2002
> @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
>        --boot-floppies        used for internal purposes by boot-floppies
>        --help                 display this help and exit
>        --include=A,B,C        adds specified names to the list of base packages
> +      --file-include=file    adds package listed in file to the list of base packages
>        --exclude=A,B,C        removes specified packages from the list
> +      --file-exclude=file    removes packages specified in file from the list
>        --verbose              don't turn off the output of wget
>  EOF

I'm not sure we really need to add code for this (we've spent at least
12 years without having anyone adding it to debootstrap), and the
following works just fine AFAICT:

  --include="$(tr '\n' ' ' < include-file)" 

(Tagging moreinfo for now, but could be wontfix or -done@.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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