From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 35541@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 12:26:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftpvhm11.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imuretpb.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <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’ve seen on IRC on release day where
a person was unable to use coreutils. So yes, the system would be
hardly usable.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 8:56 bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-03 10:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-03 10:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-05-03 11:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-03 16:08 ` Timothy Sample
2019-05-03 18:42 ` Timothy Sample
2019-05-03 19:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-03 20:39 ` Timothy Sample
2019-05-04 12:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-04 13:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-04 14:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-04 15:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-04 21:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-04 16:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-05-03 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-03 11:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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