On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kieran Grant <kieran.thehacker.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Based on the problems that Saqlain had > (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2012-December/014092.html) > and I initially had with Ubuntu core and using apt-get, I am wondering > if Ubuntu Core should include 'net-tools' (or a minimalist version) to > allow Ubuntu Core to be booted on a device and to actually be able to > setup, and connect to an Ubuntu archive server to pull from? > > Or, would it be better for this to be mentioned in the Ubuntu Core Wiki > page. > > Because, by the example's given, one would expect that apt-get would > work in a newly set-up Ubuntu Core environment, but without the ability > to set up a network (or to resolve an ip address to verify), this can > sometimes cause connection failures (I had success on one system's > chroot, on another failure). > > New users to Ubuntu Core can sometime come to think something is broken > in Ubuntu Core, when in fact it is simply their chroot or virtual system > not set up to connect to the network. > > (I don't think you need dnsutils though to resolve an IP address, that's > part of the Standard C Library, or the C Library, which ever term > applies to the actual libc.so.6)
I've never used Ubuntu Core but I just took a look at the 12.04 tar.gz. It has both iproute and ifupdown installed so it doesn't need net-tools for setting up the network. dnsutils isn't needed for network setup/access either. Sudo isn't installed though, so it has to be installed in a chroot. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
