We now have a working pkgsel and tasksel run in the first stage of the
installer. base-config will stop running in the second stage tommorrow.
Still todo stuff is below, especially the testing of the tasks.
- new localechooser, debian-installer-utils and pkgsel uploads needed to
support localisation
> - 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:
>
> - 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".
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see shy jo
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