Ubuntu
tasksel package

ubuntu server (maverick & natty) default install doesn't install the ubuntu-server tasksel

Bug #672755 reported by Dustin Kirkland  on 2010-11-08

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
tasksel (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu natty-alpha-2
Maverick	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned
Natty	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu natty-alpha-2

Bug Description

Binary package hint: tasksel

Install Ubuntu 10.10 Server. Accept all default options. Complete the install, reboot. You will notice that some of the key Ubuntu server packages are missing. Screen, vim, most notably.

Related branches

lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/tasksel/ubuntu

lp://staging/ubuntu/natty/tasksel

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2010-11-08:

installer.tar.bz2 Edit (209.1 KiB, application/x-tar)

Attaching logs from such an install.

Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2010-11-27:

Doing the milestone dance to ensure that this gets fixed in Natty. We released Maverick with this unfortunate breakage.

Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Maverick):
status:	New → Won't Fix
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Natty):
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
summary:	- ubuntu 10.10 server default install doesn't install the ubuntu-server - tasksel + ubuntu server (maverick & natty) default install doesn't install the + ubuntu-server tasksel
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Natty):
milestone:	none → natty-alpha-1

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2010-12-09

Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu Natty):
milestone:	natty-alpha-1 → natty-alpha-2

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2010-12-09:

I think what happened here is that ubuntu-serverguide was removed but nobody remembered to update the Task-Key field.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-12-09:

This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.87ubuntu2

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tasksel (2.87ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

* Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, adding kubuntu-full task and changing
server's Key from ubuntu-serverguide to screen (LP: #672755).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:55:25 +0000