Re: status of the base-config removal
Applause!!!
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:40:20 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> We now have a working pkgsel and tasksel run in the first stage of the
> installer. base-config will stop running in the second stage tommorrow.
> Still todo stuff is below, especially the testing of the tasks.
>
> - new localechooser, debian-installer-utils and pkgsel uploads needed to
> support localisation
> > - All the different task installs will need to be thuroughly tested.
> > Especially the desktop task. Also, localised installs, and preseeded
> > installs will need to be tested. The chances that all these changes
> > broke something is rather high.
> > - preseed and other documentation will need to be updated to not talk about
> > base-config and "first stage"/"second stage".
> >
> > edge cases:
> >
> > - Something needs to be done about localization-config, which hooks in
> > via base-config still.
> > - Something needs to be done about debian-edu-config, which does likewise.
> > The debian-edu people should be pinged.
> > - If anyone cares about ppp installs, something will need to be added to
> > d-i to allow them. The code that did support them is dead in
> > base-config.
> > - apt-setup has a few corner cases that it does not support that were
> > supported by the old system. These include:
> > - http proxy asking for installs from only CD w/o choose-mirror (for
> > security sources)
> > - multi-cd support
> > - debconf-apt-progress needs to have CD changing support added
> >
> > final cleanup:
> >
> > - The only thing left of value in base-config at this point is the
> > validlocale program, which localechooser uses in its prebaseconig
> > script. If localechooser cannot be modified to run without this
> > program, we will need to move it to somewhere else so base-config
> > can be removed. Perhaps the locales package would be a good place to put
> > validlocale?
> > - Eventually, we will want to do the final removal of the base-config
> > package, and rename prebaseconfig to something that makes a bit more
> > sense in the new system, such as "finish-install".
>
> --
> see shy jo
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