pool generation

[Niall Young]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Bruce  Edge wrote:

> You don't need to generate the dependencies in the install_packages script, that's the beauty of it, you rely on apt's dependency checking to pull in everything it needs.
> I just verified that it does work that way. Try it with just one package and an empty repository, it'll grab all dependencies too. Here for strace it grabs libc and libdb:

Try it with a package that is installed in NFSROOT, the dependencies are
already met so it'll only fetch the packages you specify :-(  I came
across a tool to list all recursive dependencies last year but I can't
find it now, it was almost useful.

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