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Re: Supporting multiple udeb sources.... is it really this easy?



Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:21:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> 
>> > Another idea that has crossed my mind the other day, would be to create
>> > separate initramfs images, one holding the main installer, the other holding
>> > the kernel modules (would allow to keep a single copy of the installer, and
>> > various copies of the per flavour kernel modules), and finally a third one
>> > holding the non-free .udebs.
>> 
>> How it could be done for CDs?
>
> Well, one could do multi-session CDs, but i think that having an additional
> copy of CD1 including non-free, or even a simple businesscard + non-free or
> netinst+non-free iso, in addition to the normal ones.
>
> This would be really painless.

Not really. We never distributed officially non-free stuff (except
now, in kernel) but wouldn't be good to have an official image with
non-free stuff in.

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