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! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141016131302.gf23...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
