On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 10:54 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I may be wrong but I think that passing information about the Debian > mirror is not DHCP job. > > This information can be preseeded using the normal preseed mechanism, > I think this is pretty enough for any kind of automation.
In my view, the mirror location is part of the network environment. DHCP already has mechanisms to report NTP servers, name servers, print servers and even IRC servers; I don't think the Debian mirror server is conceptually any different to these. Ultimately, in fact, I'd like a way for a running Debian system to update its /etc/apt/sources.list based on DHCP information, so that I don't have to edit sources.list on every machine if the mirror location changes. You're right that a preseed file would also allow me to set the mirror location during install, but that would be slightly more cumbersome from my point of view. I don't really want to get into building customised CD images, so in order to make it "just work" without manual intervention there would need to be a way for clients to automatically locate the preseed file on the server, which I think would again come down to a DHCP option. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
