Can we please have a ´go back´ button on the mini installer just after you´ve selected additional packages

2018-04-28 Thread Nicholas Hynes 
A couple of times now I´ve accidentally skipped over the ´select additional
packages´ screen by using ENTER to select a package instead of SPACE.

This is a real pain, becuase currently there is no way to go backand
correct the mistake, and manually installing packages afterwards doesn´t
always seem to get the expected results (I´ve created separate bug reports
for one specific instance). - see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1767728
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Re: extlinux dependent issue

2018-04-28 Thread Colin Watson 
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I'm surprised that "syslinux{,-common}" are in "main", see
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/syslinux{,-common} and "extlinux" is
> in "universe", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/extlinux, while
> all belongs to the same upstream source.

This is routine when only some of the binaries are actually used for
main-like purposes.  (syslinux is used for Ubuntu ISO images when
booting in BIOS mode.)

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Re: extlinux dependent issue

2018-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf 
Hi,

I'm surprised that "syslinux{,-common}" are in "main", see
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/syslinux{,-common} and "extlinux" is
in "universe", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/extlinux, while
all belongs to the same upstream source.

Arch doesn't split syslinux.

$ pacman -Ql syslinux | grep /usr/bin/.
syslinux /usr/bin/extlinux
syslinux /usr/bin/gethostip
syslinux /usr/bin/isohybrid
syslinux /usr/bin/isohybrid.pl
syslinux /usr/bin/keytab-lilo
syslinux /usr/bin/lss16toppm
syslinux /usr/bin/md5pass
syslinux /usr/bin/memdiskfind
syslinux /usr/bin/mkdiskimage
syslinux /usr/bin/ppmtolss16
syslinux /usr/bin/pxelinux-options
syslinux /usr/bin/sha1pass
syslinux /usr/bin/syslinux
syslinux /usr/bin/syslinux-install_update
syslinux /usr/bin/syslinux2ansi

But Arch has got no default bootloader, while Ubuntu anyway defaults to
grub 2.

Regards,
Ralf

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extlinux dependent issue

2018-04-28 Thread Tong Sun 
I'm installing extlinux in bionic and noticed one thing, the extlinux's
dependent needs fixing in my view

$ apt-cache show extlinux
...
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8)
Recommends: syslinux-common
...


I.e., the syslinux-common should be in the Depends, but not Recommends,
because without files in syslinux-common like
ldlinux.c32, libutil.c32, chain.c32, etc, extlinux package itself cannot
boot the system.

Thus syslinux-common is a dependent for extlinux, not Recommends.

Thanks for consideration.

Tong
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