tags 377032 + pending thanks On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:46, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > On 7/6/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe we should re-enable FTP, but without supporting a predefined > > list of mirrors (i.e. always just ask the user to enter the URL of > > the mirror manually if FTP is selected). > > Oh, this could be helpful enough, provided that it's available > in non-expert install as well.
I have just committed a patch that adds back support for FTP, but without mirror selection from a list. I.e. the mirror must always be entered manually. Because the ftp mirror list itself and the templates to select country and mirror do not need to be included, the size increase for the udeb is relatively limited: ~60kB (uncompressed) for the templates file. According to the changelog, disabling FTP saved "hundreds of K", so this increase seems acceptable (and hopefully won't break floppies). However, the question will not be asked at default priority as HTTP is a sane default for almost all installs. The question will be asked during expert installs. It is also possible to force the protocol to FTP by passing "protocol=ftp" at the boot prompt. Cheers, FJP P.S. The size increase could be reduced to zero by dropping the split between the two protocols for some questions. There seems to be no real reason why the templates for hostname, directory and proxy need to be split for the protocols. This is a post-Etch change though.
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