Re: patch to fix debootstrap invocation on local archive
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> Yes, this needs fixing. How should boot-floppies and debootstrap interact?
>
> Possible interactions are:
>
> * failures/success (duh)
Yes, with some well defined exit codes so we can take appropriate
action in dbootstrap if possible.
> * progress -- how much has downloaded (x%), what's happening
> (I: installing essential packages), etc
I'm not sure yet. I would guess a nice little % bar with an area
beneath it showing what it's currently doing ...
> * interactivity -- "please insert the 5th base-system floppy"
>
> I'm happy to do just about anything on the debootstrap end for this;
> what's convenient for boot-floppies? Calling a program, displaying the
> slang stuff "myself", using a named pipe, using stdio?
Probably using the slang stuff. Are you internationalized? We will
probably end up linking all slang stuff with the slang-wide libs
(IIRC).
We need to think of using this for both boot-floppies and
debian-installer. However, we don't include debconf on the root
filesystem. I would imagine a straight slang interface is best.
I would also suggest, if possible, different verbosity. We have
'debug' (does more syslogging), and orgthagonal to that, verbose,
normal, and quiet modes. We can pass this to you as a switch,
probably either a -q or a -v switch.
Sorry if you already implemented some or all of this and I haven't
noticied. I haven't had a chance to look over the code yet.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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