Russel Hill wrote:
[...]
We appear to be getting many spurious packages on our fai-cd. For
example, aspell-en gets pulled in by fai-mirror and installed on the
target system.
I'd not care too much about fai-mirror, but true, there shouldn't be a
difference between installed packages when using fai 3.1.8 versus
3.2.4... at least if such things are expeted, it should be documented in
the changelog (and, if possible, what the user can do to keep the old
set of packages).
Absolutely nothing in the package poolsdepends on
aspell-en. The only thing I can see is that aspell-en is "Recommended"
by some packages. However, there are other recommended packages that
don't get installed.
aspell-en is only one example of a 'bonus' package. Our ISO has grown
from 410MB with fai v3.1 to 560MB with fai v3.2.4. We can manually pull
some of these spurious packages out but it's very tedious and time
consuming.
Can you check that the places where you identified "recommend"
dependencies not being installed versus the ones where recommendations
are possibly pulled in use the same "PACKAGES" lines, or not?
Different PACAKGES lines behave differently.
Does anybody have a clue what might be causing this? I'd love a sensible
explanation.
Not sure, but maybe the default install options (the one that is
triggered by "PACKAGES install" ) has changed.
Here's the extract from install_packages:
...
my $aptopt='-y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o \
Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"';
...
%command = (
"install" => "apt-get $aptopt --fix-missing install",
"inst-internal" => "apt-get $aptopt --fix-missing -s install",
"remove" => "apt-get $aptopt --purge remove",
"dselect-upgrade" => "apt-get $aptopt dselect-upgrade",
"taskinst" => "tasksel install",
"taskrm" => "tasksel remove",
"hold" => "dpkg --set-selections",
"clean-internal" => "apt-get clean",
"aptitude" => "aptitude -R $aptopt install",
"aptitude-r" => "aptitude -r $aptopt install",
...
So, when using aptitude, no recommends should be pulled - aptitude-r
should pull them.
With a line using "install", using apt-get will also take any
configurations that might have been happened in a hook before the
install task into account.
Is there anything in the logs about when and why the recommends are
pulled in?
Henning
