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Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

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Hi Phil,

Am 12. Dezember 2024 09:32:58 MEZ schrieb Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>:
>I can see why you opted to put blendsel there from the point of view of
>it being minimally invasive, but I think that after tasksel is too late
>for blend selection.
>
>Some blends may want to do things like preseed the desktop, or change
>preferences for disk partitioning, or do other more radical things to
>the way D-I works.
>
>Debian-Edu's installer looks quite different at the tasksel stage for
>instance:
>
>  https://openqa.debian.net/tests/320732#step/edu_profile/1
>
>and the only thing before that in the Debian-Edu installer is locale
>selection, so if we wanted to be able to offer Debian-Edu as a blend
>we'd need to be asking about blends very early on, presumably
>immediately after locale selection.

I fear, what you describe here is not what was my goal, when I
started to work on this.
I acted on the approach, to modify tasksel so it can have a
hierachical structure for blends installation.

So, my path was to create a possibility, to install packages for
blends by selection. Not more.

What you describe above is a much more invasive approach, that
has effects in much more aspects of the installer.


I see two issues with this approach (at this time):

1.
I doubt I personally can perform such wide set of changings/functionality

2.
I'm unsure if it's the right time for such comprehensive changings
in this time of the Trixie development cycle.
That smells like more time needed for development and testing
to me?


Regards
Holger


>
>I would hope to have time to contribute some effort to helping make this
>happen in the near future, and am much more likely to get round to it if
>prodded, so please ask if there's anything I can help with.
>
>In particular, I'll be happy to set up openqa tests for attempts to get
>things working, and modify the existing tests so we can show that D-I
>still works with this in place.  I can also help you with getting
>openqa-link setup, so that you can launch your own tests from salsa's CI.


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  Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-12 07:30 +0100
  Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-12 09:50 +0100
    Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2024-12-12 11:30 +0100
    Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-12-12 16:50 +0100
      Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-12 20:10 +0100
        Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-13 02:20 +0100
          Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2024-12-13 08:30 +0100
            Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-12-13 15:30 +0100
              Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2024-12-16 13:40 +0100
            Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-14 23:30 +0100

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