Subject: Re: bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 12:26:02 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the
>> operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add
>> %base-packages to the packages field.  (When no packages field is
>> created, %base-packages is added by default.)
>
> Ouch!  That renders the installed system unusable, right?

This might explain a report that we’ve seen on IRC on release day where
a person was unable to use coreutils.  So yes, the system would be
hardly usable.

-- 
Ricardo