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Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

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Steve McIntyre wrote:
>David Wright wrote:
>>On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+0000), Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> 
>>>  * if you've used a bigger (set of) image(s), then you most likely
>>>    will want to use this again in the future. This is to support
>>>    people using CD/DVD media sets for installations. We should
>>>    probably drop this for the single-CD xfce media at least.
>>
>>That sounds sensible …
>
>I've made this change now in my local copy of d-i and I'll be testing
>shortly.

Worked fine, so committed.

>>Perhaps /etc/apt/sources.list could have a one-line pointer to a text
>>file that explained the options available and how to achieve them.
>
>At the very least, to go with the change above I've added code to
>(conditionally) add the following comment in sources.list:
>
># This system was installed using small removable media
># (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
># entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
># For information about how to configure apt package sources,
># see the sources.list(5) manual.

Also committed. Patches welcome for better wording...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
 course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds

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Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list John Hosack <hosack410@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 05:20 +0100
  Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-10 05:40 +0100
  Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-10 05:40 +0100
    Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-01-10 11:50 +0100
      Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-10 13:30 +0100
      Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-10 13:40 +0100
      Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-10 15:40 +0100
    Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-14 10:00 +0100
      Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-14 12:10 +0100
        Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-15 02:00 +0100
  Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-10 13:10 +0100
    Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-10 16:00 +0100
      Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-12 19:00 +0100
        Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-13 14:30 +0100
          Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-13 16:20 +0100
  Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 14:50 +0100

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