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Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system" (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)



On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:57:27AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> was heard to say:
> > Browsing the source, /usr/bin/tasksel, shows that selecting "standard
> > system" ends up running aptitude with a set of search selectors, 
> > something like:
> > 
> >   aptitude --without-recommends -y install ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant
> > 
> > The ~p search term matches the package priority information, and
> > apparently all search terms must match (i.e., there's an implicit 'and'
> > between them).
> 
>   When the search terms are separate arguments, they're handled
> separately; first all packages in standard are installed, then all
> packages in required, and finally all packages in important.  An
> implicit 'and' would result in nothing at all being installed, since no
> package has more than one priority!

Doh... Thanks for the clarification.  

-- 
Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu


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