On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:05, Martin Sjögren wrote: > There are several issues that make the netinst CDs suck (and I don't > mean the text frontend). Two that I'm interested in are > > 1. Pulling in ethdetect, netcfg and net-retriever automatically in anna > (whether this should be done automatically in all cases is up for > debate... Maybe it's a good idea to configure the network as soon as > possible and don't leave that to base-config?) > > 2. Menu item ordering. In my opinion, everything that's installed by > anna should damn well end up below anna in the menu, or things will be > too confusing. > Agreed. > > I don't know how to fix 2, but one idea I had for fixing 1 was to have > overrides in the netinst CD building, so ethdetect and friends would be > normally optional, but when put on a netinst CD, they'd be overridden to > standard. buxy, however, didn't really like this and suggested a file on > the CD-ROM with a list of packages to be installed automatically. > Why didn't buxy like it? I have a similar issue with kbd-chooser and the console-keymap-* files. At the moment, they are of "standard" priority, so anna pulls them _all_ in (theyre arch-independent). Not optimal, as you rarely need, eg. console-keymap-sparc on a PC. I'd _like_ them to be pulled in either by a pkg on the net CD, some form of overrides, so eg console-keymaps-ps2 is standard on i386 CDs, the others optional, etc. (preferably this is a runtime thing; eg Detect no USB hardware --> don't pull in console-keymaps-usb). Similarly a possible terminfo-udeb, for remote installs; we currently build a subset (ansi,vt100, ..) of terminfo data on the rootskel; suboptimal if you are remote-installing on a different terminal. Imagine a terminfo-udeb; if [something] spots TERM that is not supported, it should request a terminfo-udeb, and automatically fix it. How should this work? Hack anna? is there a method already in place? > I've been toying with that idea too, I just wonder what package would be > responsible for finding the file under /cdrom/... and let anna know > about it. > > Comments? > > > /Martin - Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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