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

[Torben Hohn]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:35:04AM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:27:29AM +0100, John Ogness wrote:
> > 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()
> 
> Probably also needed to ensure that the same result is produced if rebuilding
> from bin-cdrom.iso because there debootstrap will always use the newer package,
> because the repos are merged.

The Repos are not merged.
We have "main" and "added" components on the cdrom.

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