Packages installed after container creation are not editable

[Oxwivi]

Please make the list of packages that are installed upon container creation editable.

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

How would you specify a list of additional packages to be installed?

The current method to accomplish something similar to this is just to build a bash script containing several commands that looks something like this:

    #!/bin/bash

    libertine-container-manager create -i mycontainer ...
    libertine-container-manager install-package -i mycontainer -p mypackage
    libertine-container-manager install-package -i mycontainer -p mypackage

[Oxwivi (oxwivi)]

Unless I'm much mistaken, that method only takes a single package as an argument and also lists them on the Libertine app. The default packages already being installed by default are low-level helper packages, and the ones I want to add, and envision others would, are for the same reason. I wouldn't want any fonts listed in the app.

Anyway, my point is, maybe just take the list of packages automatically installed as variable exposed in a separate config file. The defaults in a global config, and user-specific files in /home/.

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

To be precise, extra packages could be specified in the following ways.

(1) through a file specified as an argument to a switch on the libertine-container-manager command line, said file containing one package name per line

(2) through an entry in a (new, optional) configuration file ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/libertine

Installation of these extra user-specified packages would take place in a phase after the container is created. Errors in installation are reported and ignored so that processing of the list can continue until the end is reached.

[Oxwivi (oxwivi)]

Could you elaborate on the second option? Nobody on #ubuntu-libertine
mentioned it.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:00 AM Stephen M. Webb <email address hidden>
wrote:

> To be precise, extra packages could be specified in the following ways.
>
> (1) through a file specified as an argument to a switch on the
> libertine-container-manager command line, said file containing one
> package name per line
>
> (2) through an entry in a (new, optional) configuration file
> ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/libertine
>
> Installation of these extra user-specified packages would take place in
> a phase after the container is created. Errors in installation are
> reported and ignored so that processing of the list can continue until
> the end is reached.
>
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> Title:
> Packages installed after container creation are not editable
>
> Status in Libertine:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Please make the list of packages that are installed upon container
> creation editable.
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