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gioele commented on pull request josch/mmdebstrap#24

mmdebstrap: Show APT's dependency trace when in debug mode

> We never need this if apt succeeds, correct? Personally, I also used this to understand why certain packages were brought it. In that case apt did not error out, but did not produce the…

2 years ago

gioele closed issue josch/mmdebstrap#23

apt installs non necessary packets, even with --mode=custom

2 years ago

gioele commented on issue josch/mmdebstrap#23

apt installs non necessary packets, even with --mode=custom

I'm closing this because this turned out to be an issues in APT and not in mmdebstrap. Going forward, some debug aid in mmdebstrap like the one proposed in !24 could help debugging this sort of…

2 years ago

gioele created pull request josch/mmdebstrap#24

mmdebstrap: Show APT's dependency trace when in debug mode

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gioele created branch debug-show-apt-resolution in gioele/mmdebstrap

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gioele pushed to debug-show-apt-resolution at gioele/mmdebstrap

  • a4b7239d71 mmdebstrap: Show APT's dependency trace when in debug mode
  • 64ba5f8229 release 0.8.5
  • 409ce1cfee improve man page further
  • 4ce5a92123 coverage.sh: now that the _apt user is created as a system user by adduser, we also need to change /etc/shadow
  • 3a9ba24d12 coverage.sh: output diff to stderr prevent interleaving with sh -x output
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2 years ago

gioele commented on issue josch/mmdebstrap#23

apt installs non necessary packets, even with --mode=custom

Thank you for the support. The dumped EDSP document is at https://anonfiles.com/f5KdL7Mdx3/deb-vm-min-perl_edsp. PS: feel free to close this issue, I will report it "upstream" as an apt issue.

2 years ago

gioele opened issue josch/mmdebstrap#23

apt installs non necessary packets, even with --mode=custom

2 years ago

gioele pushed to main at gioele/mmdebstrap

2 years ago

gioele deleted branch docs-fix-vm-creation from gioele/mmdebstrap

2 years ago

gioele commented on pull request josch/mmdebstrap#22

Fix examples of how to create VM images

The explanations are in the commit messages. :) But let me recap: 1. The second example did not have `copy-file-to-device /boot/mbr.bin /dev/sda size:440` thus no boot loader, thus it did not…

2 years ago

gioele created pull request josch/mmdebstrap#22

Fix examples of how to create VM images

2 years ago

gioele created branch docs-fix-vm-creation in gioele/mmdebstrap

2 years ago

gioele pushed to docs-fix-vm-creation at gioele/mmdebstrap

  • 5fa2457fd5 mmdebstrap: Add mbr.bin installation to autopkgtest-build-qemu instructions
  • 8e6f183b3f mmdebstrap: Install mbr.bin in /boot and keep after installation
  • 97e6981ddc mmdebstrap: Read extlinux's MBR from /usr/lib/EXTLINUX
  • 22c0ba45a0 mmdebstrap: Use ext4 instead of ext2 in examples
  • 829df60242 mmdebstrap: Align autopkgtest-build-qemu and USB stick examples
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gioele created repository gioele/mmdebstrap

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