On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:41:10PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 25 December 2008, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > looking at debian-cd svn, i noticed that there was a FIXME for > > supporting ISOLINUX_DEFAULT. > > > > this very imperfect patch at the very least gets installgui working > > with the menus, to make Graphical Install the default menu selection, > > although it relies on text.cfg getting loaded before gtk.cfg: > > I'm not really happy with this patch.
not surprising, really. i'm not much happy with it myself. thanks for looking it over. :) > 1) It's actual function seems extremely limited. Effectively it only moves > the default selection one line down. yes. pretty much. allows a person to hit enter to get a graphical installer, rather than having to think about which option to choose. > 2) It does not really support multi-arch nor multi-desktop CD/DVDs. > 3) It only works because I expect isolinux will use the last 'default' > statement it encounters, but having two default statements in a config > seems rather ugly to me. agreed. would it be any better if it removed the default entries from other configs? i haven't looked into it, but i'm guessing debian-installer is what generates the isolinux configuration files? it might be better to re-work those a little to make it easier to configure the default menu, as the current isolinux configuration is a little difficult to customize. the other idea i had was some way to change the order of config files, so that the graphical installer would come up first. would still require a way to remove the "menu default" entry from other options. or if syslinux could be patched to allow a "menu default $FOO" outside of a particular section... > 4) It is indeed only a very partial fix. > > What exactly is the use case this is trying to cover? > Unless it is very persuasive I'd be inclined to remove this altogether... in etch there was a way to make it default to the graphical installer. it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to make that the default behavior on a custom CD. now that there's a menu by default, it's easier to select the graphical installer, so maybe it's not as big of a deal to remove support for it. > > i'm also curious if there is there a planned timeline to upload > > debian-cd to unstable soon? > > We've just implemented the recent changes for daily/weekly builds and > everything seems to work. So I guess we could do a release. good to hear. > That would allow you to also update simple-cdd. ah, it seems you read my mind. :) live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
