Paras pradhan wrote: > Hi all: > > I think i need to learn about tasksel. I need a help on using tasksel. > > I have a customCD which has base pacakges + xserver-xorg + > xwindow-system +xfce4 in my pool. > > When i install from that CD., only the base system is installed and > seems successfull. > > After that i boot into the new system and added the following to the > /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc > -- > Task: desktop > Section: user > Relevance: 8 > Description: XFCE Desktop environment > This task provides basic desktop software and serves as a basis for the > Gnome and KDE desktop tasks. > Key: > x-window-system > xserver-xorg > xfce4 > Packages: task-fields > Test-desktop: 1 Don't use the task-fields method to list packages unless you plan to edit your Packages file using an overrides file to add Task fields to all the packages in your task. The task-fields method does not install even Key packages unless they have a suitable Task field, since it just tells aptitude to select the entire task for install. You can see this if you run tasksel with the -t switch. It's much easier for a CDD to use the list method: Task: xfce-desktop Section: user Relevance: 8 Description: XFCE Desktop environment blah Key: x-window-system xserver-xorg Packages: list xfce4 Test-desktop: 1 -- see shy jo
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