Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:14, Steve McIntyre wrote: H. I've been working on a slightly different setup in my devel branch - specifying the type of media up-front instead of the size, then setting the size from there. Same overall effect, just slightly different code. Mine in CONF.sh

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You can install from netinst without networking to get just a base system. That's a point. Also don't forget that basically everybody wants to use a mirror for security no matter what image type he uses. That's irrelivant since the mirror use question does not

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You can install from netinst without networking to get just a base system. That's a point. Also don't forget that basically everybody wants to use a mirror for security no matter what image type he uses. That's irrelivant

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: In debian-cd/tools/add_debs add something like (pseudocode): if [ $COMPLETE = 1 ]; then if [ $DEFBINSIZE -gt 1000]; then echo dvd .disk/cd_type else echo full_cd .disk/cd_type fi else echo not_complete .disk/cd_type fi I guess this heuristic

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: joeyh, sledge, others, After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing from netinst CD, full CD or DVD. This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the use a

[RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
joeyh, sledge, others, After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing from netinst CD, full CD or DVD. This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the use a mirror question based on the type of CD. In