feat(wsl): add POSIX text/scripting baseline tools#17794
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The WSL image list enumerates user-facing basics explicitly (tar, which, less, curl, file) but omitted several classic POSIX text-processing and scripting tools that scripts and interactive users universally assume. Add them so they are guaranteed present rather than relying on transitive dependencies of a minimal install: - gawk (awk) - diffutils (diff, cmp) - findutils (find, xargs) - patch - xz (.tar.xz is the dominant tarball format) - grep - sed - gzip (gzip, gunzip, zcat) Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
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This PR augments the Azure Linux WSL image package list (base/images/wsl/wsl.kiwi) by explicitly adding several classic POSIX text-processing and scripting tools. The WSL image already enumerates user-facing basics (tar, which, less, curl, file), and this change ensures core utilities are guaranteed present rather than relying on transitive dependencies of a minimal install.
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- Adds 8 packages to the
<packages type="image">block:diffutils,findutils,gawk,grep,gzip,patch,sed,xz. - Each new entry is inserted in alphabetical order, consistent with the surrounding list, and introduces no duplicates.
- All added package names resolve to existing, buildable components in the distro (
specs/), withname=references matching real RPM package names.
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The WSL image list enumerates user-facing basics explicitly (tar, which,
less, curl, file) but omitted several classic POSIX text-processing and
scripting tools that scripts and interactive users universally assume.
Add them so they are guaranteed present rather than relying on transitive
dependencies of a minimal install:
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani falakreyaz@gmail.com