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Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD



Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:56:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:00:30PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> Robert Millan a écrit :
>>>> If you plan on making this the official installer, I would strongly
>>>> advice against replacing the old installer completely untill "netinst"
>>>> images are provided.  With "netboot" or "bussinesscard" builds, install
>>>> process can break due to external changes in the archive, which seems
>>>> highly undesireable.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH netinst is self-contained, and can even install without a network
>>>> connection.
>>> That's indeed something wanted, but I don't know how to produce such
>>> images which already include a set of packages. If someone can help on
>>> that, that would be appreciated.
>> Btw, now that it is possible to install from testing/squeeze, and the
>> likelyhood that this install path breaks is small, perhaps this is less
>> of an issue.
>>
>> May I suggest making testing/squeeze installs the default, so that the old
>> builds can finally be deprecated?
>>
> 
> Looks a good idea. I'll try to install a testing system and if there is
> no serious regression compared to unstable, I'll make that the default.
> 

I have just given a try, and during the installation, there is an error
message about security.debian.org not having support for kfreebsd. The
installation continues anyway, but it may confuse our users.

Any opinion on that?

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