[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#841649: Bug#841649: Vmdebootstrap cannot produce a KDE image

[Neil Williams]

severity 841649 wishlist
retitle 841649 make documentation clearer on task packages
thanks

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:25:06 -0400
Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org> wrote:

> package: vmdebootstrap
> severity: important
> version: 1.7-1
> 
> vmdebootstrap   --mirror http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian
> --distributi
> on testing --package task-kde-desktop --package kwin-x11 --arch amd64
> --image  f
> oo.img --grub
> --size 8000000000

This is covered in the manpage. Even if debootstrap was able to resolve
the task package, all the Recommends will be missing.

The way to use task packages is in a customisation script which uses
apt (just as Debian Installer does).
 
> I suspect that Debootstrap will say it's not their problem:
> debootstrap was never intended as a full package resolver.

Correct. There is nothing debootstrap is going to do about this.
Equally, there is nothing vmdebootstrap needs to do about this as the
support already exists, with examples already available.

> I should however be able to use Vmdebootstrap to create a desktop
> cloud or VM image, so I think it is Vmdebootstrap's problem even if

With a customisation script, this will work just fine because apt does
the work inside the chroot.

-- 


Neil Williams
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