Bug#589213: [Popcon-developers] Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:29:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Daniel Richard G.] > > Yes, I see that... what is it now, the --no-recommends switch is broken? > > Nope. Your installation simply used version 0.26, which is one > version before the change was introduced. > > I eagerly awa

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sun, 2010 Jul 18 06:09+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > No. Those are *not* daily built images. Follow the relevant links from > the page I referred to! For netboot you need "other images". Oh, right---I see the different set of links, that go to various places (e.g. people.debian.org) not in the rep

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > So if I had used the one from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/ >images/netboot/ > > it would have worked? No. Those are *not* daily built images. Follow the relevant links from the page I referred to! For

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sun, 2010 Jul 18 04:46+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > No, that's no update. Only a date change for some reason. The images > are still identical to the alpha1 release from February. One way to > see that is to check the kernel version: it uses 2.6.30 instead of > 2.6.32. Another is to check the /etc

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 21:40+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I'm not sure what image was used by the bug reporter, but I assume a > > current "D-I alpha 1" image. The alpha1 images date from mid Februari. > > These received a refresh a few days ago: > http

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 21:40+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I'm not sure what image was used by the bug reporter, but I assume a > current "D-I alpha 1" image. The alpha1 images date from mid Februari. These received a refresh a few days ago: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/inst

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Daniel: sorry for the private duplicate of this mail; no need to CC me.) On Saturday 17 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 13:35+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > So: as the reported issue is already fixed in current daily built D-I > > images and as the Recommends in popcon is fu

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 13:35+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > So: as the reported issue is already fixed in current daily built D-I > images and as the Recommends in popcon is functionally correct, there > is absolutely zero need to make any changes in popcon. Okay, now I'm a little confused. So I see in

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I eagerly await Bills view on the proposed change for > popularity-contest, which I believe i a better place to implement the > change. No, it is not reasonable to ask packages to change functionally correct and policy-compliant dependencies

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Daniel Richard G.] > Yes, I see that... what is it now, the --no-recommends switch is broken? Nope. Your installation simply used version 0.26, which is one version before the change was introduced. I eagerly await Bills view on the proposed change for popularity-contest, which I believe i a be

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 09:56+0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The obvious fix is to change popularity-contest to suggest instead of > recommend, to avoid pulling in a MTA when popularity-contest is > installed. Cc to the maintainer list to see if that is an interesting > alternative. Hunh. I was

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Daniel Richard G.] > Of course; it is attached. > > Looking at that, it doesn't appear that cron is responsible for pulling > in exim4*; cron is installed much earlier in the process. heirloom-mailx > is installed at the same time as exim4*, but that one only Suggests: > exim4. It seems possible

Re: Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
(Replying to list only.) On Friday 16 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Please make some effort to understand how things work before making > > wild guesses. > > I've spent an effort over several years to understand how d-i is > working, but thank you for voicing your concern. For your ed

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frans Pop] > And on what do you base that statement? I base it on many years of experience with debian installer and mine observations of its inner workings. And as far as I know there is nothing in debian-installer asking for exim to be installed. The packages installed is mostly decided by d

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I suspect the change you propose can not be implemented by > debian-installer, but instead would have to be done by changing cron > or any other package pulling in the mta package.  At least the way d-i > is designed at the moment. And on what

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Daniel Richard G.] > I want to install a minimal Debian/squeeze system. When the > installer presents the tasksel screen, I unselect everything, even > "Standard system utilities". Yet when the install is finished, I see > that a complete exim4 installation is present, and running. This is, > to

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > From the looks of it, exim4 is installed because of a Recommends: by > the cron package: > > Recommends: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent, lockfile-progs How exactly did you determine this? I doubt it is cron as Recommends are not ins

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: debian-installer Version: 20100211+b1 (Note: I'm not sure that d-i is the correct package for this bug; please reassign if needed.) I want to install a minimal Debian/squeeze system. When the installer presents the tasksel screen, I unselect everything, even "Standard system utilities".