Joey Hess wrote: > initial rollout: > > - preseed 1.11 and base-installer 1.40 need to be reviewed and uploaded. > These changes will keep "second stage" preseeding working. done > - tasksel 2.37 and debconf 1.4.62 need to get to testing so they're > available for use from regular d-i installs.a done as of today > - Then pkgsel needs to be uploaded. Done today, waiting for NEW. Remainder still todo. > - Then prebaseconfig 1.14 can be uploded, and base-config will no longer > be run. > - 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: > > - pkgsel needs to have some code added to propigate a couple of debconf > variables that debs use, or we need to find a better way to > communicate this info. Documented in pkgsel's TODO. > - I have a suspicion that user-setup will need to create the non-root user > before tasksel runs and that we'll see subtle (or not) breakage when > exim4, etc are installed before that user is present. > - 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 -- see shy jo
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