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Re: Suggestion for choose-mirror



On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:40:52PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables 
> are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
> 
> II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
> http_proxy=http://example.com:3128/

I expect that you can already do this using
mirror/http/proxy=http://example.com:3128/ at the kernel boot prompt.

> This would go some way to automating the install prcedure, especially if 
> the idea's adapted to other packages.

Since d-i uses debconf, most questions are pre-answerable like this.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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