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Bug#839724: use isenkram instead of debian-edu-hwsetup



package: debian-edu,debian-edu-config

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 03:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Holger Levsen]
> >> a changelog entry is missing, though. 'debian-edu-hwsetup' 
> >> calls isenkram-autoinstall-firmware (among other adjustments) so maybe
> >> should still be shipped.
> >
> > … and I believe isenkram is now also called automatically by d-i.
> 
> Not yet, as far as I know.
> 
> Isenkram provide two functions, one is to locate and install firmware
> packages and the other is to install hardware specific non-firmware
> packages.  I believe I saw some work adding similar firmware related
> code to d-i, but am not sure it is working yet.  For the non-firmware
> packages, I am not aware of any alternative to isenkram.
> 
> I suspect a good way forward for Debian Edu is to drop
> debian-edu-hwsetup and call isenkram directly instead.  Perhaps by just
> installing isenkram-cli and let its tasksel hooks do its magic.  Not
> sure if this will loose some functionallity, or if all the potential
> workarounds are obsolete now.  I do not remember how details about what
> d-e-hwsetup is doing any more.

ok, let's do this now then. Filing a bug to track this task.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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