ISO manifest inconsistent with installed packages

Aaron aaron at browncoat.us
Tue Dec 6 15:57:43 UTC 2011


I did not select to install any updates or third party applications, but
I'm going to check this again on a LiveCD and see how the differences look.

Thanks for your time!

Aaron

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement <
jean-baptiste at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 12/06/2011 01:45 AM, Aaron wrote:
>
>> I am looking at how consistent the ISO manifest is with the actually
>> installed packages in Precise.  The basic steps I did are:
>>
>> 1. Download ISO from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/**daily-live/current/<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/>
>> (download with date stamp for today)  I did a install (not live cd) in
>> VirtualBox.
>>
>> 2. Download the manifest for the ISO (for i386 below is the path)
>> (download with date stamp for today)
>>
>> wget
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/**daily-live/current/precise-**
>> desktop-i386.manifest<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/precise-desktop-i386.manifest>
>>
>>  Just to clear a confusion here, the manifest on cdimage.u.c lists the
> contents of the live filesystem, not the installed filesystem.
>
> Content of the live filesystem and a freshly installed system are
> different because, some packages on the Live CD are only useful to the Live
> CD and the installer, only the language (and langpacks) the user selects is
> installed, additional software can be installed (in your case virtualbox
> packages, but also flashplugin, codecs, updates, additional langpacks not
> on the CD, i386 packages due to multiarch support if you're installing on
> amd64 and need i386 libs, ...)
>
>
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