needing the CD after installation for apt-get installs bugs me

Oliver Grawert hostmaster at grawert.net
Wed Oct 6 20:40:22 UTC 2004


hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2004, 12:26 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> The reason it's non-trivial is that doing it smoothly before the first
> reboot implies doing it from the installer, where many of the tools
> you're used to aren't available or don't work as expected. For example,
> using apt-get in that fashion leaves the .debs in
> /var/cache/apt/archives, and the first thing that base-config does when
> it starts up is to delete everything in /var/cache/apt/archives;
why not parse a list from a dpkg -l|awk combo to the remove command,
this will leave uninstalled pkgs untouched.

ciao
	oli

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