On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:11:41PM +0200, Phil Kn??fer wrote: > Hi @all, > > I just followed the guide on converting a Debian template to Kali Linux. > Apart from a new naming convention in Debian 11 repositories > (bullseye/updates has been renamed to bullseye-security) everything > worked fine. > > When executing the ''apt dist-upgrade'' I realized that the packages > "qubes-core-agent-dom0-updates" and "qubes-vm-recommended" were to be > removed. This seems to be due to the fact that > "qubes-core-agent-dom0-updates" requires yum and yum-utiles, which both > seem to be missing in Debian Testing. > > The former package is described as "Scripts required to handle dom0 > updates." I don't think that I will ever use a Debian Testing/Kali-based > VM for updating dom0 so this should not be a problem. However, > "qubes-vm-recommended" depends on this package and therefore is removed > during the upgrade. > > Is this a known issue? Maybe a bug that needs to be addressed in the > packages? > > According to my tests/research "qubes-vm-recommended" is only a > metapackage that specifies some dependencies which are recommended for > best performance. All these dependencies should already be installed > anyway and can still be installed manually if there are any problems. > > If you are a regular Qubes user and experience the same problem that I > described above, there is likely nothing you need to do. > > I would have created a bug report but I don't really know where it > should go. Would https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-meta-packages be the > right place? > > Regards, > Phil >
Hi Phil Yes this is a known issue, and the workaround you have found is good. There is no problem in removing the "qubes-vm-recommended" package, and putting a hold on packages that you want to keep. I'm reluctant to take any bugs against debian-testing , ( and teherfor Kali or any distro based on testing), because it is *testing* and you expect breakage. It wouldnt be worth Qubes making mitigations against issues that will probably be fixed as testing moves to stable, imo. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20200331151249.GA27350%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
