Bug#846006: debian-cd: please provide flavor/spin netinst image for Debian Edu
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:32:42PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:32:26AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>[..]
>> 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).
OK, I guess. Wouldn't it maybe make more sense to just add this kind
of thing to a task rather than modifying the base-install package set?
>> 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!
Woo!
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