Frans Pop wrote: > I've prepared a patch for anna that will check if there are any udebs in the > available packages list suitable for the running kernel version. > My goal was to allow the user to select another mirror if no valid udebs have > been found. > > I think this patch will also require the addition of a dialog for the > retrievers to handle the new 'kernel_version' error situation. > > Please check very carefully as my knowledge of both anna and C is very > limited :-(
The C looks ok. How this would interoperate with a retreiver to do something sensible for the user I'm not so sure of. With the current patch, the net retreiver will incorrectly claim in this case that downloading a file failed, and let the user choose a new mirror, but possibly without the ability to change the suite, depending on debconf priority. The patch also bends the retreiver error handling spec, which really does not let random things be passed back in the failing_command parameter, but only expect actual retreiver commands there. I'd be inclined to not deal with this via retreiver error handling, since it's really not a failure to retreive a file at all. Just make anna display its own error message, which can explain more clearly that there's probably a kernel mismatch, and then have anna fail, so the user will get to the main menu and can change their mirror and suite settings manually. -- see shy jo
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