On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 15:51:21 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > In article <d495e992-2b66-2ecf-6219-6f8c157b7...@plouf.fr.eu.org> you write: > > > Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > > > > > > > As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in > > > > the security.d.o infrastructure. I'm chasing that now. > > > > > > Do you mean that all packages with Priority: standard and their > > > dependencies are supposed to be present in installation CD images ? > > > > Correct. That's part of the design. It works well, until reality > > changes underneath us like this. :-) > > Well, if I am counting right, this is not true for the multi-arch > netinst image : > - 85 packages found in the main section for i386. > - Only 43 packages found in the multi-arch CD image main section. > > Is it an exception because a netinst image is not supposed to be used > without a mirror ?
I was under the impression that "netinst" stood for "network installer", so the image only contains what's essential to bootstrap a standard system (or greater) from the network (Internet or local mirror). Cheers, David.