On Friday 26 October 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > +db_input high apt-setup/cdrom/set-first || true > > +db_go || exit 10 > > +db_get apt-setup/cdrom/set-first > > If this generator ran after the 50mirror generator it could check to see > if network sources were enabled in sources.list. If they are, and > a DVD is available, there's probably no reason to ask the question at > high. In the case of a full size CD I haven't figured out a good > heuristic for lowering the priority yet, but I'd like to find one. :-) > > Hmm, another way to look at this is, there's code in the mirror > generator to ask if a mirror should be used. There's code in the cd > generator to ask if additional cds should be used. This is redundant, > the answer to either question implies the right default answer to the > other.
My thought was that the user should first be allowed to load additional CD/DVDs or not and based on that we _could_ change the defaults/priority for using a mirror. OTOH, as you've argued yourself in the past, having additional CDs available does not guarantee that all packages you want for (l10n) tasks are available. They could still be on a CD in the set _after_ the last one you scanned, so having a mirror could still be useful. I'm quite happy with the way things currently work. I'd suggest the following: - I'll take a last look at the templates I have now (using Christian's comments) - do a first commit and upload _without_ translations enabled - this will make it relatively easy for others to actually try multi-CD installs in practice and see how it works - we can then tune the workflow and dialogs, and enable translations for new/modified strings afterwards One thing that we may want to add is to check whether a CD has already been scanned (you can currently scan/add a CD multiple times; this is harmless) and whether there are "gaps" in the set (CDs 1, 3 and 4 scanned, but CD 2 forgotten). A simple check to add would be if the CD has actually been changed (that the ID is not the same as the last one scanned), or even that a CD has not yet been scanned. I'll probably add that.
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