peter green wrote: > >> >> The solution Sven has proposed can be improved, without all the mirror >> bloat, I think. The sane thing to do would be for debootstrap to default >> to what's in /etc/apt/sources.list when no mirror is given. This avoids >> the logistical nightmare of having to make and update >> $arch.ftp.debian.org foreach architecture. If you're using it in >> sources.list, it has your architecture. >> > The thing is sources.list often contains things other than the debian > mirror and it may be tricky to figure out what is the debian mirror > and what is something else. > Sure, but that doesn't prevent us from looking for "recognizable" entries that match, say: ^\s*deb\s+(f|ht)tp://.*\.debian\.org/debian/\s+(etch|stable)\s+ and fall back to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ in the event we can't find a match. Or are you claiming the proposed regular expression would not be general enough?
An even simpler solution would be to simply default to a mirror that hosts all supported architectures... Surely there is one somewhere? C,B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
