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Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list



Steve McIntyre wrote:
>David Wright wrote:
>>On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+0000), Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> 
>>>  * if you've used a bigger (set of) image(s), then you most likely
>>>    will want to use this again in the future. This is to support
>>>    people using CD/DVD media sets for installations. We should
>>>    probably drop this for the single-CD xfce media at least.
>>
>>That sounds sensible …
>
>I've made this change now in my local copy of d-i and I'll be testing
>shortly.

Worked fine, so committed.

>>Perhaps /etc/apt/sources.list could have a one-line pointer to a text
>>file that explained the options available and how to achieve them.
>
>At the very least, to go with the change above I've added code to
>(conditionally) add the following comment in sources.list:
>
># This system was installed using small removable media
># (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
># entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
># For information about how to configure apt package sources,
># see the sources.list(5) manual.

Also committed. Patches welcome for better wording...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
 course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds


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