Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2014-11-18): > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:05:34AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] > >> Interesting change; I'd be tempted to refactor things slightly in > >> the code, but that's a secondary thing. I'm more curious: what are > >> the ramifications for d-i? Have you investigated/tested? > > > >We use d-i in Debian Edu, and it is able to install from our ISO. I > >have not investigated more than that. :) I suspect it might affect > >apt-setup, but have not checked the code. > > tack:~/debian/d-i/d-i/packages$ grep -lr cd_type . | less > ./apt-setup/generators/50mirror > ./apt-setup/generators/41cdset > ./apt-setup/debian/changelog > ./apt-setup/finish-install.d/10apt-cdrom-setup > > So yes, it affects apt-setup only. > > In 50mirror: it would affect the code that decides whether or not to > offer a network mirror, and the installer priority setting. Appending > extra details on "not_complete" will change things here. > > In 41cdset: it won't change anything here, we'll still bail out as > we're not_complete. > > In 10apt-cdrom-setup: again, appending to "not_complete" will break > the logic there that turns off the CD source for netinst images. > > I think you need to make some changes in d-i too before I'm happy to > take this patch, sorry. Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like material for stretch. Mraw, KiBi.
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