ISO manifest inconsistent with installed packages

[Gema Gomez]

On 06/12/11 19:21, Aaron wrote:
> Well I'm happy to report that the installed applications from the LiveCD
> do indeed match the application manifest!
> 
> Sorry about that.

Nothing to be sorry about! I didn't know that either, so assumed that
the manifest was the right place to look.

So we should probably look at the packages that are installed on an
imaged installed by default, in the default language (i.e. English)
without Internet connection.

Good work, thanks for looking into this!
Gema


> 
> A
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Aaron <aaron at browncoat.us
> <mailto:aaron at browncoat.us>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <mailto: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, ...)
> 
> 
>         -- 
>         Jean-Baptiste
>         irc: jibel
> 
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