Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 21:41:02 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >On Mi, 22 oct 14, 17:50:52, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>How can I prevent a specific package from ever being installed?
> >...
> >>That doesn't work at install time - when the init package is installed by
> >Thanks for the feedback, I just did a slight rewording to fix this
> >
> > s/from ever being installed/from being installed on upgrades/
> >
> >>base-installer and debootstrap. You need to preseed with exclude/include
> >>statements, that currently don't work because of a bug.
> >As far as I understand that can be worked around with a 'late_command'
> >(or was it 'late-command'?), at least until the bug is fixed, but I'm
> >not familiar enough with pre-seeding to write anything about this.
> >
> >
> yes, you can execute commands later in the pre-seeding process; but
> only after systemd has been installed by debootstrap -- so, IF
> installing, then uninstalling systemd, and avoiding dependency hell,
> all work properly - you can end up with something other than systemd
> running as init; but "prevent <systemd> from ever being installed" -
> does not currently appear possible for a new installation; save by
> cobbling together a custom version of the installer
So the situation with a default init system is no different from what
it is with Wheezy.
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