Ubuntu natty: debootstrap doesn't install aptitude

Stephan Adig sh at sourcecode.de
Mon Feb 7 17:41:03 CET 2011


Hi thomas,


On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:57 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:37:37 +0100 (MET), Andreas Sindermann <sinder at thp.Uni-Koeln.DE> said:
> 
>     > On the other hand it might be a good idea to generally switch to
>     > apt-get. But my suggestion would be to do this in the Debian packages.
> In the past we switched from apt-get to aptitude, so I will not return
> to apt-get. IMO aptitude works fine on the command line, and all
> examples in FAI are using aptitude since a long time.

What I don't understand is:

We do a debootstrap of variant=minbase (imho) I don't find the default
right now.
For minbase there was a patch for debian SID which explicitly stated
"apt" as base package.

Could it be, that somehow aptitude has the same impact?

regards,

\sh 

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