Re: Clean patches for Credit Card CD
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:20:45PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 20 May 2000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 20 May 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Its cut off.... minor ineffiencencies count major in cases where you are
> > > > > short on space... could we have the boot-floppies package generate a list?
> > > >
> > > > Probably. You'd better discuss this on debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> > >
> > > I changed the script to match for Priority: required OR section: base....
> > > the required packages are the most important for dependency calculations.
> > > I think this will work decently even without having a list of base
> > > packages from the debian-boot people.
> >
> > Duh. It's so simple, but I only just thought of it:
> >
> > tar xzOf base2_2.tgz ./var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -e '^Package: ' -e '^Status: ' | grep -B 1 '^Status: .* installed' | grep '^Package: ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2
> >
> > (Should all be on one line; maybe mail agents do weird things...)
> >
> > If you don't understand, build up the long pipe piece by piece.
> > The grep on 'Status installed' is not really necessary, but in the future we
> > just _might_ have 'removed' packages there, so you should check anyway (and it
> > takes virtually no time).
>
> The boot-floppies does create a list of what is in base2_2.tgz. It's
> called base-contents.txt. It's basically a dpkg -l of the set.
That file is useless for this purpose because there are several packages that
have truncated names.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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