Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #281246 This isn't merely a matter of convenience for Debian-live. The live CDs produced by live-helper use casper which sets no root password. Instead the live user uses sudo. Thus, the aptitude menu entry that starts aptitude in a terminal as the current user is broken. When root is required, the user is prompted for the root password by do_su_to_root(). Of course, since there is no root password, there is nothing the user can do to proceed.
As Matt Zimmerman suggested, this should really be a config option. So far, we have patched Debian's casper to set the appropriate config options for kdesu and gksu, and the 'menu' package's su-to-root wrapper (see #410875) to all use sudo. We only need this problem with aptitude to be resolved for all standard sytem utilities requiring root to work properly when launched from the menu on a Debian live CD. Thanks, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.4-4 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
