Merge branch 'pkg-comments' into dev

README.md

@@ -71,5 +71,8 @@ maintenance and allows for more easy customization.
    enhancements, etc.  This is a base desktop system, with some development
    tools installed.
 
- - Stage 4, complete Raspbian system.  More development tools, large packages
+ - Stage 4, complete Raspbian system.  More development tools, an email
-   like LibreOffice, email, sonic-pi, wolfram-engine, etc.  All the things.
+   client, learning tools like Scratch, specialized packages like sonic-pi and
+   wolfram-engine, system documentation, office productivity, etc.  This is
+   the stage that installs all of the things that make Raspbian friendly to
+   new users.

build.sh

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ EOF
 		fi
 		if [ -f ${i}-packages-nr ]; then
 			log "Begin ${SUB_STAGE_DIR}/${i}-packages-nr"
-			PACKAGES=`cat $i-packages-nr | tr '\n' ' '`
+			PACKAGES="$(sed -f "${SCRIPT_DIR}/remove-comments.sed" < ${i}-packages-nr)"
+			PACKAGES="$(sed -e "$sed_expr_packages" < ${i}-packages-nr)"
 			if [ -n "$PACKAGES" ]; then
 				on_chroot sh -e - << EOF
 apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y $PACKAGES
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ EOF
 		fi
 		if [ -f ${i}-packages ]; then
 			log "Begin ${SUB_STAGE_DIR}/${i}-packages"
-			PACKAGES=`cat $i-packages | tr '\n' ' '`
+			PACKAGES="$(sed -f "${SCRIPT_DIR}/remove-comments.sed" < ${i}-packages)"
 			if [ -n "$PACKAGES" ]; then
 				on_chroot sh -e - << EOF
 apt-get install -y $PACKAGES
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ EOF
 	log "End ${SUB_STAGE_DIR}"
 }
 
+
 run_stage(){
 	log "Begin ${STAGE_DIR}"
 	STAGE=$(basename ${STAGE_DIR})

scripts/remove-comments.sed

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Deletes comments and collapses whitespace in ##-packages files
+
+# Append (N)ext line to buffer
+# if (!)not ($)buffer is EOF, (b)ranch to (:)label loop
+:loop
+N
+$ !b loop
+
+# Buffer is "line1\nline2\n...lineN", del comments and collapse whitespace
+s/#[^\n]*//g
+s/[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ /g