[elbe-devel] Install newest available version of a package that belongs to the base system

[John Ogness]

On 2018-02-08, Lukasz Walewski <lwalewski at s-can.at> wrote:
>>> How can I get the newest available version of a package that belongs
>>> to the base system?
>>
>> How about adding a finetuning command?
>>
>>    <command>apt-get -y upgrade</command>
>
> Yes, that (sort of) works! I came up with this idea myself, but I
> consider it to be a hack rather than a solution. The default behavior
> for base system packages is different from that for all other
> packages, which is extremely confusing: the user doesn't have to know
> which packages are "base system" and which are not. Besides, that
> might change without notice and is out of control of elbe.
>
> Another disadvantage of the above is that the version reported in the
> "Installed Packages List" section of elbe-report.txt is the "base
> system" version and not the actually installed version. In particular,
> the version reported there is wrong, if the package was upgraded in
> <finetuning/>.
>
> Any other ideas?

Change elbe so that it automatically upgrades packages after completing
debootstrap.

Looking at the code, it might be enough to do something like this
(untested):

--- a/elbepack/elbeproject.py
+++ b/elbepack/elbeproject.py
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ class ElbeProject (object):
             for p in self.xml.node("debootstrappkgs"):
                 debootstrap_pkgs.append(p.et.text)
 
-            pkgs = self.buildenv.xml.get_target_packages()
+            pkgs = self.buildenv.xml.get_target_packages() + debootstrap_pkgs
 
             if buildenv:
                 pkgs = pkgs + self.buildenv.xml.get_buildenv_packages()

John Ogness