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Re: file-retriever



On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:33:53AM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> Thanks for the enthusiasm, both of you. :)

:>

> But I'm pretty sure that file-retriever won't be used as it is, it's
> more of an example of retrievers. The concrete retrievers so far are
> net-retriever, floppy-retriever and cdrom-retriever... Arbitrarily
> symlinking into a 'debs' directory (relative to what? the root of the
> ramdisk? huh?) seems a bit silly.

Yes that was explained in the TODO. I'm working on ftp support in
net-retriever... patch soon.

> Furthermore, it doesn't support the retriever protocol at all, so it's
> kind of useless in that respect! ;)

Mine supports it. :P

> If you want to actively contribute to d-i, I suggest you join
> #debian-boot on OPN, that's where most of the up-to-date discussion
> takes place, the documentation shouldn't really be trusted fully.

Ok, will do.

regards,
guillem



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