trinity recommends packages are not installed

[andrew bezella]

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 21:19 +0100, Frank Lienhard wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I have several packages from trinity missing in may FAi instalation. 
> After some investigation. I found out that the problem seems to be that 
> FAl installs additional (to the one from the package config of FAI) only 
> packages that are marked "depends" and not the one that are "recommends".
> Is there a debconf flag that I can set to change this behavior?

it looks like changing your package_config files to use "aptitude-r"
will result in aptitude being called with the "-r"/"--with-recommends"
option.  the default "PACKAGES aptitude" line uses
"-R"/"--without-recommends" (per /usr/sbin/install_packages in fai
3.4.8).

hth...

andy

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