Hi Steve, moin Holger,
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:32:26AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 11:17:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> >exim4-daemon-heavy is needed as well; reason is: Debian Edu needs this
> >package early to avoid a clash with exim4-daemon-light (iirc installed
> >by default) later on in the installation process. The exim4-daemon-heavy
> >package is expected to be available on the ISO image to make debootstrap
> >happy.
[..]
> Holger has added these now. I'm curious why you thing these packages
> in particular need to be on the netinst itself, though - can't you
> just grab from the network?
Debian Edu modifies di via debian-edu-profile-udeb; this part of the
debian-edu-profile code explains the issue:
case "$server" in
"true")
# install exim4-daemon-heavy early.
db_set "base-installer/includes" "exim4-daemon-heavy"
;;
esac
The 'server' variable is set to true in case the 'Main-Server' profile
has been chosen.
And the base-installer expects all needed packages to be on the image
and doesn't try to fetch from the network; apt-setup happens later on
(iirc).
> The set of debian-edu packages are making the netinst quite a lot
> larger than the normal Debian netinst already, which is surprising!
It's supposed to be so due to the 'debian-edu-config' package beeing
included with the image and debian-cd pulling in all depends and
recommends recursively.
You can lean back now, guys: the installation of a Debian Edu combined
server (profiles 'Main-Server', 'Workstation', 'LTSP-Server') just
happened to finish with success.
Great job done! Thanks a lot!
Wolfgang
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