Re: D-I Team: What happens if udebs are added the pool outside d-i?

[phil@hands.com (Philip Hands)]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:54:22AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
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> What is the feeling, in principal, about having system rescue stuff in
> d-i?  What about foreign os rescue/backup/imaging?  Is there anyway to
> have this available without borking d-i or will I need to maintain a
> shadow archive for at least some of this?

Good timing -- I finally got round to doing a backup-restore.udeb today
which I've been thinking about for ages (mine's aimed at backuppc,
and is _very_ rudimentary so far,  but I'd like it to be more general)

My approach is currently to have a udeb that takes over base-installer's
role, which if it works out should work via a preseeding hack for
now (using etch media, and downloading the extra udeb from elsewhere)
but I think it would be nice to have it as an optional, to be downloaded,
udeb available via d-i's menus (presumably via expert mode)

It would seem like a good idea to allow for other drop-in functionality
so that other people can provide udebs without them ever getting onto
normal install media, or perhaps only on some class of "fat" d-i builds

Cheers, Phil.