[pkg-fso-maint] [Fwd: patches against install.sh]

[Karl Goetz]

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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:45:53 +0100
Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,

'allo

> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 00:38 +1030 schrieb Karl Goetz:

> > Personally, I'd use custom to install navit (as in the submitted
> > code. perhaps a bad example), along with screen, irssi, and several
> > other 'key' applications I use.
> 
> I must say that I somewhat disagree here. install.sh is not the full
> scale debian-installer, rather it should be the minimum to get going
> with Debian. So as long as extra repositories are not required to
> install the system to a point where you can log in and run apt-get
> yourself, I don’t see a need to extend the installer.

Yep. It seemed outside scope, but I figured once I'd written the code
it was worth submitting it.

> 
> If you need to automate that, then write a script that calls the
> installer, and then mounts the installed system and does the extra

Imo this would be clunkier - there's now two scripts to get separated
and copied around.

> steps. Or, for extra points, port debian-installer to the
> FreeRunner :-)

Now thats just a bit keen :)
kk

> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim


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