On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:39:06PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Today I made a small step further on my plan for better hardware > support in Debian. I added support in discover version 2.1.2-1 for > calling module-assistant in discover-pkginstall, and fixed a few > long-standing bugs in the debconf handling in that script. > [...] > > I believe the next step is to call the discover-pkginstall script from > d-i during installation, to get the required packages installed. After reading your answers and more thoughts about it, I really think that it would be a nice improvement to get. :) I would probably like to see discover-pkginstall ran after a debconf question at medium priority, defaulting to true, so it could easily be deactivated at the expert level. Do you feel like hacking d-i to propose a first implementation of your proposal? On thing might be tricky though: if we want correct feedback while building a module, module-assistant will probably need to be modified to use debconf instead of DIY dialog screens. And finally, I see important cases where discover would want to install packages in contrib or non-free (see my previous questions), so we probably would need to raise the priority of the apt-setup/{contrib,non-free} questions to medium or high when such hardware is found. Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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