[Bug 1578642] Re: Xenial tasksel "manual package selection" during installation does nothing

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

I have discussed this in person, and indeed this is not something we
want to support any more. If you are preseeding please use postinstall
commands to executed apt in-target to install things which are not part
of the tasks.

** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)

** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.12

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Title:
  Xenial tasksel "manual package selection" during installation does
  nothing

Status in tasksel package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  NOTE: This bug was filed via `ubuntu-bug` on an Ubuntu Server machine
  post-install.  The issue appeared on the Xenial ISOs, and likely still
  exists (pending a Yakkety image I can dig up which will actually
  install on a VM).

  While not part of the ISO testing, it was discovered by myself that
  the "Manual Package Selection" task no longer operates in the Ubuntu
  Server installer ISO.

  The ISO probably absorbs this error, but this error is output to the
  Terminal when you try and use "manual package selection" in tasksel
  post-install:

  Can't exec "/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/manual": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/tasksel line 295.
  Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/tasksel line 295.

  
  With 15.10 and earlier (Trusty included), this is not an issue, 'manual package selection' works in both post-installation and during the installation of the system.

  (This was tested on the Server ISOs, and with Ubuntu Server
  installations)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: tasksel 3.34ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu May  5 09:26:43 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-19 (15 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160417.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: tasksel
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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