[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/5] Ubuntu: Use apt-get instead of aptitude when installing guestfsd.

[Guido Günther]

Hi Rich,
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:02:47PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> It's not clear why we use aptitude instead of apt-get in these
> scripts.  In debirf 0.25 on Ubuntu, aptitude appears to be uninstalled
> during creation of the appliance, so it obviously doesn't work.
> Revert to using apt-get.
We should rather build-dep on aptitude here then - it's much more clever
when it comes to dependency resolution.
Cheers,
 -- Guido
> 
> Rich.
> 
> -- 
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> >From 59b0a9b3b08fcaa182c4816f606da8094020641b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Richard Jones <rjones at ubuntu910x64.home.annexia.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:52:36 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Ubuntu: Use apt-get instead of aptitude when installing guestfsd.
> 
> ---
>  appliance/debian/modules/y0_install-guestfsd |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/appliance/debian/modules/y0_install-guestfsd b/appliance/debian/modules/y0_install-guestfsd
> index c95e4f0..3eb8ba9 100755
> --- a/appliance/debian/modules/y0_install-guestfsd
> +++ b/appliance/debian/modules/y0_install-guestfsd
> @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ find $DEBIRF_ROOT/lib/modules/*/kernel -name '*.ko' $whitelist -a -exec rm '{}'
>  # install additional packages:
>  PKGLIST=$(< packagelist)
>  echo "Will add $PKGLIST"
> -debirf_exec aptitude -R -y install $PKGLIST
> -debirf_exec aptitude -y remove vim-tiny dhcp3-client iptables
> +debirf_exec apt-get --assume-yes install $PKGLIST
> +debirf_exec apt-get --assume-yes remove vim-tiny dhcp3-client iptables
>  
>  debirf_exec mkdir -p --mode=0777 /sysroot
>  
> -- 
> 1.6.3.3
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