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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 12:26:02 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
>> When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the
>> operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add
>> %base-packages to the packages field.  (When no packages field is
>> created, %base-packages is added by default.)
>
> Ouch!  That renders the installed system unusable, right?

This might explain a report that we=E2=80=99ve seen on IRC on release day w=
here
a person was unable to use coreutils.  So yes, the system would be
hardly usable.

--=20
Ricardo