GNU bug report logs - #35541
Installer does not add %base-packages

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 08:58:01 UTC

Severity: serious

Tags: fixed

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Subject: bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 12:26:02 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> 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
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