[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#797962: Bug#797962: openstack-debian-images: Built images do not include aptitude

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi

Michael Fincham <michael.fincham at catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> Hi Gaudenz,
>
> I should have been more verbose in my original report :)
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:36:55 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz at debian.org> wrote:
>>  You don't say which documentation you are refering to. Is this
>> current documentation for jessie from Debian? If so it should be fixed.
>
> When I said "previously" I meant:
>
> From at least some time in 2006/2007 until August of 2010, <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html> contained the phrase (I've just checked this with archive.org).
>
> Some of us who made the switch to aptitude when this was the advice
> have just continued using it - it was only recently I discovered that
> the recommendation has changed to apt-get.

Also to be clear, there is nothing wrong with using aptitude. I use it
myself. This bug is just about which package manager should be installed
in the official Debian OpenStack image.

>
>> Aptitude is not part of the Debian default install anymore and thus
>> should not be part of the OpenStack images either.
>
> I've just installed a fresh Jessie VM with all the defaults and it
> does still come with aptitude installed, thus my surprise that it was
> missing from the cloud image.

By Jessie VM you mean you used the debian-installer to install into a
traditional VM, not the cloud image, right? Then it depends if you
select the "Standard system" task or not (which is selected by default).
The standard system on jessie still contains aptitude, but the cloud
image does not install this task. As it's meant to be as small as
possible it only contains what debootstrap installs.

Gaudenz
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