Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 04 Dec 2017, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/03/2017 05:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > In the last years, Petter Rheinholdtsen worked on isenkram[2] with a > > similar but a bit broader goal. I noticed it has better support > > of clouds and that it will install some

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 03 Dec 2017, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I see mainly benefits to such a move. The only downside is that it > > would pull python by default. This entirely depends on whether we want > > to keep it installed or not. We could install it just to do a single > > scan and install pass

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Elena ``of Valhalla''] > Did I see it right and this would be python 2? Probably. I just used /usr/bin/python and did not care much about python 2 or 3 when writing it. As far as I know, there is not much stopping it from working with python 3, but I have not done the porting. I agree that it

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-04 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2017-12-03 at 17:30:49 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I see mainly benefits to such a move. The only downside is that it would > pull python by default. Did I see it right and this would be python 2? I'd think that at the very least it would have to be ported to python 3, since py2 is going

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-03 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Le 04/12/2017 à 02:22, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > On 12/03/2017 05:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> In the last years, Petter Rheinholdtsen worked on isenkram[2] with a >> similar but a bit broader goal. I noticed it has better support >> of clouds and that it will install some

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/03/2017 05:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In the last years, Petter Rheinholdtsen worked on isenkram[2] with a > similar but a bit broader goal. I noticed it has better support > of clouds and that it will install some virtualization/cloud-related > packages automatically whereas discover

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Raphael Hertzog (2017-12-03): > debian-installer is using discover[1] to install some packages based > on the hardware it discovers. Unfortunately, discover is dead upstream > (Debian is the upstream really) and the hardware->package database is > not maintained at all.