Re: moving archdetect functionality to libd-i
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:23:03AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Colin Watson]
> > Because that's the only way I can get the archdetect program outside
> > d-i. The ddetect source package does not produce any other .debs. I
> > cannot cause the code to appear on the installed system by
> > magic. :-)
>
> Right. What about putting it into discover instead of libd-i?
> Sub-arch detection have more in common with hardware detection then
> d-i support functions.
Ubuntu does not use discover in the installer any more, so naturally I
am not so keen on this option as I would be generating extra work for
myself.
archdetect is used in many places within d-i, and I think it deserves to
be in a generic location.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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