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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
During installation with (at least) current netboot and mini.iso images
tasksel is not run, so it is not possible to select any tasks, and
default language tasks are not installed.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-rc4-me
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Recent changes to pkgsel caused #384481: It no longer ran tasksel at all.
<eugen> what is value of "(db_fget tasksel/first seen && [ "$RET" = false ]) ||
(db_get tasksel/first && [ "$RET" ])" if tasksel/first does not exist?
<joeyh> eugen: otavio put that in so that it can be preseeded to nothing to
avoid running tasksel at all
<joeyh> is it broken?
<eugen> joeyh: tasksel/first does not exist during normal install, so I think
it evaluates to false, and so tasksel is not run
I've reverted the entire set of recent changes to the postinst, back to
r39391. I hope that the logic can be fixed and these changes put back in,
but please *test* it this time, ok?
AFAICS, this fails because tasksel/first is not in cdebconf unless
preseeded. So both the db_fget and the db_get return nonzero, as eugen
says.
I don't have on hand the test that I originally suggested you use, but
I think that it took this case into account. Probably something like:
if ! db_fget tasksel/first seen || [ "$RET" = false ] || (db_get tasksel/first
&& [ "$RET" ])"; then
Which is, again, untested, and should not be committed to svn/released
until it has been tested.
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