new seeds feature: alternatives in germinate 2.4.2

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 04:23, Julian Andres Klode <
julian.klode at canonical.com> wrote:

> This means that only the first package ends up getting a Task
> field, and hence installation during image build - which uses
> the task feature of apt (apt install task-name^)


This isn't how image builds install tasks, for better or worse.

In lucid and earlier, the Task header is used but it's matched by hand
rather than using the ^ syntax -- I'm not sure why though, it may be
something to do with not wanting to install the packages that have the task
header but are from a foreign architecture.

In mantic though, livecd-rootfs uses the package lists produced by
germinate directly.

Given these package lists are what drive the Task header in the archive, I
expect it doesn't make any difference though.

Cheers,
mwh

is still as
> predictable as before - the resolving there doesn't change
> (task-name^ expands to all packages with Task: task-name).
>

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