Re: Plans for debian-cd
>>>>> "raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <raphael@ouaza.com> writes:
raphael> Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 09:54 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
raphael> a écrit :
>> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
>>
>> > * Allow (limited) builds without a local mirror. Netinst and
>> business > card images should be possible that way - they don't
>> need a full > set of packages to be present.
>>
>> A simple way is to create a partial mirror for this. The
>> reprepro package has a bugreport from me with example scripts
>> to create a mirror with only packages listed in the
>> debian-installer task. The script asks debian-cd for the list
>> of packages and filters by that.
raphael> My idea is to have debian-cd uses a kind of sources.list
raphael> file much like APT ... this way you can generate CD with
raphael> packages coming from several sources. A system similar to
raphael> apt_preferences may be needed to resolve conflicts when a
raphael> package is available on several sources...
raphael> But imho, that's the main point of using beeing able to
raphael> download package instead of using a local mirror. So I'm
raphael> still completely in favor of a rewrite so that debian-cd
raphael> can download the required packages.
Yes, this makes more sense to me since you can still use the local
mirror and then we have the good of both Worlds :D
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