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actions: debootstrap: Expose include and exclude arguments #358

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@obbardc obbardc commented Aug 19, 2022

Optionally expose the --include and --exclude debootstrap
arguments to allow packages to be included and excluded
at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Obbard [email protected]

Optionally expose the --include and --exclude debootstrap
arguments to allow packages to be included and excluded
at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Obbard <[email protected]>
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Please document a use-case for this; generally you shouldn't be including extra package when doing a debootstrap run nor is it very advisable to exclude specific packages

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obbardc commented Aug 25, 2022

Please document a use-case for this; generally you shouldn't be including extra package when doing a debootstrap run nor is it very advisable to exclude specific packages

Right, this was really created to expose those properties for power-users.

For my case though, this is an early hack to exclude specific packages in cases where debootstrap force a package to be installed when it may not be available for a downstream (for instance, usr-is-merged is forced to be installed on any suite which is not in the standard list, so a Debian/Ubuntu downstream which uses a non-standard suite will break. Debootstrap developers are not overly interested in making it work with downstreams and instead have suggested that we exclude the package from the early debootstrap command).

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obbardc commented Sep 22, 2022

With #362 this is not required anymore.

@obbardc obbardc closed this Sep 22, 2022
@obbardc obbardc deleted the wip/obbardc/debootstrap-add-include-exclude branch July 25, 2023 12:39
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