Bug#494640: live-helper: Doesn't follow APT_RECOMMENDS settings in lh_chroot_sources
Package: live-helper
Version: 1.0~a48-1
Severity: normal
I have a strange feeling that this might be a 'feature'. When I ran 'lh_chroot_sources install'
(with all previous scripts run without errors) or any script which calls it, I found it was
installing packages I didn't request. With some investigation I found that it was doing an
apt-get dist-upgrade which was making it install recommended packages (I believe the default for apt?).
This was contrary to the file rootdir/config/common in which I had the line
LH_APT_RECOMMENDS="disabled"
which seemed to do the job for everything but this script. I think this is a bug, but in the past
I have simply misunderstood the correct function of a program and thought it was a bug. Please
tell me if the script is supposed to ignore this option.
Jeremy
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages live-helper depends on:
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.3 Bootstrap a Debian system
ii debootstrap 1.0.10 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
live-helper recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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