Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 21:47:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> >
> >I'd suggest that the principal udeb package to consider as responsible
> >for installing the base system is bootstrap-base. It runs debootstrap.
> >Debian Policy specifies the base packages as being of Priority: required
> >and Priority: important.
> 
> actually, after looking at some more installer documentation
> (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ch02.html) - I'm
> thinking it's more likely to be the base-installer package

bootstrap-base has the package description 'Install the base system' and
depends on base-installer. An installer log has

  Oct  7 16:48:43 main-menu[190]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected

followed by debootstrap installing the base system. An example is

  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap: Preparing to unpack .../archives/init_1.21_i386.deb ...
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap: dpkg: regarding .../archives/init_1.21_i386.deb containing init, pre-dependency problem:
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap:  init pre-depends on systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap:   systemd-sysv is not installed.
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap:   sysvinit-core is not installed.
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap:   upstart is not installed.
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap:
  Oct  7 16:49:33 debootstrap: dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!