Bug#479431: Should D-I upgrade packages during pkgsel?
On Monday 5 May 2008 16:37, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > I'm unaware of D-I's internals, but from the viewpoint of a Debian user
> > I'd say: why upgade? Can't apt figure out the first time when it installs
> > those packages which need to come from cd and which from a mirror?
>
> Maybe, but you could (should? ;-) be aware of the flow of an install...
> The kernel is installed during base system installation and at that point
> apt-setup has not yet been run, so we don't _have_ any mirrors yet at that
> point.
>
> If you'd used a businesscard image instead of a netinst, it would still be
> the same as during base system installation you have _only_ the regular
> mirror. The security/volatile mirrors are only added during apt-setup.
Ok, good to know, thanks for the explanation.
Thijs
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