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

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Joey Hess 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.
> >
> > You can get lists of these packages with
> >
> >    aptitude search ~prequired -F"%p"
> >    aptitude search ~pimportant -F"%p"
> >
> > > Any idea which of those installs systemd, and if that can be
> > > modified through a preseed command?
> > The init package is Priority: required. It pre-depends on
> >
> >     systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart
> >
> > The first alternative is systemd-sysv, which pre-depends on systemd.
> >
> > There is no preseed command which can alter this.
> It may be that adding --include=sysvinit-core to debootstrap will cause
> the other branch of that dependency to be taken. I have not tested it.
> If that is the case, then the thing to preseed is
> base-installer/includes, the value of which is passed to --include.

Now THAT is the pointer I was looking for - I'll have to try that.

Based on that, might it also make sense to preseed
base-installer/excludes
as well?

I.e.,
base-installer/excludes systemd-sysv
base-installer/includes sysvinit-core

Thanks!

Miles


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