| realtime-neil | Is there a way to prevent ubiquity from installing certain packages? For reference, I'm still using (and customizing) the ubuntu-18.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso | 15:59 |
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| realtime-neil | e.g., I'd like to avoid installing the `transmission*` packages, if I could. | 16:00 |
| CarlFK | realtime-neil: my guess: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_tweaking_candidate_version "never install the package even if recommended " | 16:12 |
| CarlFK | I am guessing transmission is a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, no clue what will happen when that install fails, last guess: the installer stops | 16:13 |
| cjwatson | ubuntu-desktop Recommends transmission-gtk, it doesn't depend on it. | 16:27 |
| cjwatson | But ubiquity works by copying a squashfs, so you can't avoid installing the packages there as such, only arrange to remove them afterwards. | 16:28 |
| realtime-neil | cjwatson: understood and I concur, but I have demonstrated with my own tests that the unmodified ubuntu-18.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso ubiquity installs the `ubuntu-desktop` virtual package. | 17:59 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: that's a good idea --- I'll try that next | 18:00 |
| cjwatson | Indeed - I don't think that contradicts me | 18:01 |
| realtime-neil | cjwatson: yep, i misread that; your implication being that, despite what happens with the squashfs, there's this implicit `apt-get -y install ubuntu-desktop` happening _after_ the unsquashfs that I can't control. | 18:06 |
| realtime-neil | Well, I can't control it _yet_, at any rate. | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | realtime-neil: That wasn't my implication; I was just saying that transmission-gtk is in the squashfs so it isn't ordinarily possible to stop ubiquity installing it. (But I missed that you're editing squashfses, so this probably isn't so relevant. Carry on.) | 18:09 |
| cjwatson | If you're editing the squashfs then you'd just arrange for the squashfs not to have that package installed. | 18:10 |
| realtime-neil | Wow, okay, apparently it _is_ already installed within the filesystem.squashfs ... I missed that yesterday | 18:25 |
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