On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Per Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-17 14:39]: >> > Most users of headless devices would probobly want it. >> > >> > So I'll create an udeb for rescue-initramfs which installs it >> > during d-i and then put rescue-initramfs-udeb in >> > installer/build/pkg-lists/network-console. Is that a good >> > solution?! >> >> Alternatively, you could put the code into packages/network-console. > > network-console is *not* only used for headless devices so I'm not in > favor of linking these two.
Yeah, I remember that we discussed this on IRC and I agree with you. > I have no idea if a udeb for rescue-initramfs is needed. If all it would > do is install the regular package then a separate udeb would be serious > overkill. It is indeed. > What is needed here is a proper analysis of when exactly rescue-initramfs > is wanted and at what stage of the installation it should be installed > (pkgsel or finish-install I would say). The first question should provide > an answer to how its installation should be triggered. I took a brief look at pkgsel yesterday. I'll probably roll with that. Concerning use cases, when it is usable and should be installed, I see at least two use cases: - NAS devices, which I have been working with this summer. Even simple things like kernel upgrade or automatic fsck of filesystems could render the box unbootable if you don't have a serial console. Add encrypted root filesystem and you have to have some way to interact during the boot process. - Headless servers, for, probably, the same reasons mentioned above. At first I thought of adding something similar to pkgsel/pre-pkgsel.d/10laptop-detect for NAS devices that d-i support. But maybe it would be a good thing to have a dialog asking the user about installing rescue-initramfs if encrypted root filesystem is selected. -- Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
