Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador writes: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: >> Please also consider the case of virtual packages. E.g. --exclude >> exim4 should not add exim4 back in due to dependencies on >> mail-transport-agent. Instead some other MTA should be used, i

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Please also consider the case of virtual packages. E.g. --exclude > exim4 should not add exim4 back in due to dependencies on > mail-transport-agent. Instead some other MTA should be used, idealy > one added with --include. If

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador writes: > Hello Ivan, > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>  OS> To you exclude a package you also need to exclude all one that >>  OS> depends on it otherwise it will be added back into the installation >>  OS> list by the dependency resolution code. >> >>

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Ivan, On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >  OS> To you exclude a package you also need to exclude all one that >  OS> depends on it otherwise it will be added back into the installation >  OS> list by the dependency resolution code. > >        Is it really the whole proble

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> "OS" == Otavio Salvador writes: OS> retitle 557322 Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't OS> affects dependency resolution thanks [...] IS> However, it seems that it doesn't allow, say, initscripts & co. to IS> be excluded: >> # debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase \

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
retitle 557322 Improve manpage to explain that --exclude doesn't affects dependency resolution thanks On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > --cut-- >       --exclude=alpha,beta >              Comma separated list of packages  which  will  be  removed  from >              download

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-21 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.10lenny1 Severity: minor debootstrap(8) reads: --cut-- --exclude=alpha,beta Comma separated list of packages which will be removed from download and extract lists. WARNING: you can and probably will