Re: Bug#488386: please provide an udeb
On Saturday 28 June 2008, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Saturday 28 June 2008 16:55, Frans Pop wrote:
> > A udeb was recently removed.
>
> Do you mean a year ago or was it recently removed again?
Yes, looks like that was about a year ago (even if the changelog does not
mention it).
> > In our opinion there should be no reason why
> > the _installer_ needs to be aware it's installing to a laptop or not.
>
> I tried to explain that in the bug report. We (Debian Edu) use it to
> modify the profile which gets installed...
Sorry, but that is Greek to me. What is a profile, what does it do?
How/why exactly does it need to be different for a laptop than for a
desktop?
> Also, Otavio, the laptop-detect maintainer stated in 426608 that he
> wouldnt have a problem to reintroduce the udeb.
So, why hasn't this been a problem for debian-edu in the past year? Why
does this suddenly need to happen when Lenny is about to be frozen?
Also, adding a udeb is not up to Otavio as laptop-detect maintainer. Any
new udeb needs to be approved by the D-I team and thus discussed on the
debian-boot list.
> > Any reason you cannot just chroot into /target and run laptop-detect
> > there?
>
> Because /target is not set up, when we need it.
OK, that could be a valid reason. But you've not yet explained why you
need it _before_ /target is set up.
> > You'll have to provide a much better/clearer use-case scenario before
> > we'll allow a udeb to be reintroduced.
>
> I hope I did :)
Not really, or at least, not yet in sufficient detail to satisfy me
personally.
Reply to: