#! /bin/bash
+# mk-basefile doesn't use the -updates suite, then we unpack it, then we
+# install sources.list that has -updates and we install random
+# packages. It might avoid a problem if we a dist-upgrade first.
+
+$ROOTCMD apt-get update
+$ROOTCMD apt-get -y dist-upgrade --purge --auto-remove
+
# https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2016-July/011398.html
# In Ubuntu 16.04 (but not 14.04), the locales configuration mechanism has
# changed. There is a /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config file, which
# hook applies the debconf setting. It must run after FAI's debconf task
# but before dpkg gets a chance to clobber debconf with an empty setting.
+
if [ ! -f "$target/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local" ]; then
- $ROOTCMD debconf --owner=locales sh -c '
+ $ROOTCMD debconf --owner=locales sh -c '
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_version 2.0
db_get locales/locales_to_be_generated &&