was better with locales installed first off - go figure

install all packages in a single call to apt-get install

diff --git a/vbuild-init-vserver.sh b/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
index 15d03bb..21639a5 100755 (executable)
--- a/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
+++ b/vbuild-init-vserver.sh
@@ -316,8 +316,13 @@ function devel_or_vtest_tools () {
            ;;
        debootstrap)
            $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get update
+           # handle this one firt off to be sure 
+           $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y locales
+           # all in a single batch 
+           $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y --ignore-missing $packages
+           # check it up a bit 
            for package in $packages ; do 
-               $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y $package || \
+               $personality vserver $vserver exec dpkg -l $package >& /dev/null || \
                    { echo "WARNING - missing package on debian $package - ignored" ; true; }
            done
            ### xxx todo install groups with apt..