On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:48:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > This would be the standard aptitude y/n prompt shown when aptitude > remove is run. > > Tasksel does allow you to de-select tasks to remove them, but at least > in my testing, in English, aptitude honors an "n" at the prompt. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey>tasksel remove print-server > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data foomatic-db foomatic-filters gksu hpijs > libcupsimage2 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 libslp1 pax python-foomatic > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics lsbdev > The following packages will be REMOVED: > cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint > foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui > lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics lsbdev > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 24 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 51.3MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > Abort.
Sorry that my previous reports on this bug where not very clear. I wil try to describe more exact what happened in the US English/QWERTY install of Friday 4 Feb 2005 (based on the sarge-CD iso1 downloaded 22 Jan 2005). I did not post a full installation report about this install of 4 Feb 2005, only an annotation to this earlier bug report. * date of install and of bug: 4 Feb 2005 * system description: x86, PCI, Parallel ATA, ... (standard "PC") * "English US" as language * "us" (pc 104) as keyboard * "Brussels" as TimeZone * finalized regular install * so I got a root prompt * I typed tasksel with no further arguments linux-box:~# tasksel * I got the regular tasksel ncurses screen * I selected [*] Desktop [*] Mail server [*] File server * IIRC, I pressed <Enter> to continue * then in text mode, I saw messages similar to those above * and I got the question "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" * because these would install a lot of packages and time was limited, I wanted to change my mind and *not* go further. * I pressed 'n' (and I watched very, very closely as I had observed this problem before; I also had a witness, watching the install to learn how to install Debian, who also saw me type 'n') * I don't recall if I pressed <Enter> too, or only the single letter 'n' * very strangely the installation happily continued with downloading, unpacking and installing all planned packages I have no short term access to any of the 2 machines on which I had the problem. Next Wednesday (9 Feb 2005) I have access to the box with the original Dutch language installation about which I originally filed this bug. My conclusions (from my limited experience): * this bug is probably not related to language or translation (the bug appeared on a Dutch and an English install) * this bug is probably related to aptitude and not to tasksel Hope This Helps. I can do more tests on Wednesday 9 Feb 2005 if needed. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
