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Ubuntu's lucid release (10.04) has had its point release taking it to
10.04.1. Ubuntu choose to distribute this within a second repository
tree (as lucid-updates) rather than within the base "lucid" suite.<br>
<br>
They also choose to distribute security updates through another tree
(as lucid-security) rather than within the base "lucid" suite.<br>
<br>
The relevant hook script (
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) knows about this, and inserts the -updates and -security entries into
/etc/apt/sources.list before calling "apt-get update"<br>
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Debootstrap on the other hand, does not seem to know about/support this
(?), with the end result being that upon booting into a Lucid domU,
you're immediately told that there's 30-40 packages that should be
upgraded. Potential options:<br>
<br>
1. Do nothing. I do not see this as being particularly desirable - why
should a new domU be forced to manually update?<br>
2. File a bug against debootstrap, if we consider it a bug (?)<br>
3. Revise 20-setup-apt so that the -updates and -security entries are
commented out by default; this would at least make the domU appear
fully up to date in terms of its initial deployment.<br>
4. Revise 20-setup-apt so that it runs "apt-get upgrade" after "apt-get
update".<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Regards<br>
Nathan<br>
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