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rootstock --seed option problem

Asked by baebaevv1013@gmail.com on 2011-04-20

Hi,
I have a problem when I use rootstock command.
I am not sure what is behind the "--seed" option.
I found many examples from website, for example: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop, build-essential,openssh-server, lxde,gdm.
And I guess each option behind --seed means a package list.
So where can I find all options about --seed?
And is there a package list about each option?

Thanks a lot.

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) said : 		#1

The --seed option is basically the list of packages you want to install at your rootfs.

There are some meta packages, that helps you installing the distribution, like xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop and others. You can also just list any valid ubuntu package you think it'd be good to have at your rootfs, think like running "apt-get install <seed>".

One easy way to grab the package list it going into the repository, and looking for the meta data called "Packages.gz", like http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/maverick/main/binary-armel/Packages.bz2. There you'll find every package available for the main component (you can also search for universe, multiverse and etc).

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