[Vmdebootstrap-devel] --components option

[Neil Williams]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:02:13 +0100
lsalav at sapo.pt wrote:

> Dear developer
> 
> Thank you for your work on this superb package, my Beagle is running
> great! I have however one non-essential question, that I believe can
> be resolved quite quickly.

Already asked but not available.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770722

> I would like to know which sections of the Debian repositories the
> beagleboneblack.sh script uses with all the options as set by default

main only.

> (see for example
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/TI/BeagleBone). Does it
> use only the main section of the repositories? Or does it use the
> contrib section, or perhaps even the non-free section? On the
> debootstrap man page the option --components is mentioned for this
> purpose. I have not seen anything of the sort in connection with
> vmdebootstrap, it doesn't seem possible to specify sections of a
> repository.

There are two many options available in debootstrap to add them all
individually to vmdebootstrap. Hence the above bug report has already
had other requests merged into it.
 
> I imagine the question I'm asking would not seem important to every
> user, but I believe free software enthusiasts would disagree. If this
> information is out there and I somehow missed it I apologize, but I
> would like to know for sure which software gets included in the disk
> image. Mentioning this in the documentation is just a thought I had.

The customise script can be extended to add the relevant apt source,
update and install packages from extra sources. That's an exercise left
to the reader. Alternatively, the packages can be added after install.
There are no packages essential to the VM which are not in main.

-- 


Neil Williams
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