Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation
* Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> [2010-05-24 16:43:23 CEST]:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:13:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on
> > cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware
> > zip/tar.gz files already. I'll set up the extra images to be dropped
> > in there.
>
> It would be nice if this could all be moved somewhere else
> so that it gets mirrored.
I don't think that it's a good idea to "drop" non-free data on mirrors
without them knowing about the change. Keeping it seperate but sending
the cd mirror admins a mail about that there is additional stuff that
they might want to mirror sounds like the more sensible approach to me.
Thanks,
Rhonda
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