I would say It all depends if you select a mirror in the installation process. If you DO, I would claim must will prefer and expect it to be used as that repository.. For those who don't select a mirror,of course the repository should be the CD-ROM. By the way....I believe the waste majority use ISO files -> USB flash, not CD-ROM/DVD. All in all, the current setup is for the few in favor of the majority, and that's a wrong priority in my view (I don't have any facts and statistics to back up my assertions, so I might be wrong).
I had the same battle with the OPNsense community about the old mindset of CD/DVD (even floppy images).....very very few use CD/DVD today, today you use USB-Flash and net installs. *I'm not saying CD/DVD shouldn't be supported*, just don't have a mindset about this is what most people use. It's not. This goes for the website, dokumentation and how solutions are designed. Having CD-ROM as the main repository is a good example. Best regards Brian W, Denmark On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:42 PM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the debian-installer package: > > #925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror > > It has been closed by Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Steve McIntyre < > st...@einval.com> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 925105: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925105 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> > To: Brian Wengel <m40636...@gmail.com>, 925105-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:38:52 +0000 > Subject: Re: Bug#925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for your comments! > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 09:35:28PM +0100, Brian Wengel wrote: > >Package: debian-installer > > > >Version: debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso, from 2019-03-16 > > > > > >After a clean installation this in the content of the sources.list: > > > ># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > DVD > >Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main > > > >deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD > >Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main > > > >deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main > > > >deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main > > > >deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main > contrib > > > >deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main > contrib > > > > > >I guess you can always argue if this is a bug. > >But I will claim that by far the waste majority of Debian users want to > have > >the selected mirror in the installation to be the primary repository, not > the, > >in many ways, useless CD-ROM. > >Wouldn't it be more fair that the very few that actually want the CD-ROM > to be > >the primary repositor, are the one who has to modify the sources.list? > And not > >the waste majority of the users. > >And if they don't, they can just skip selecting a mirror in the > installation, > >and then the CD-ROM should be the repository. > > We already have logic in the installer in this area. If the user is > using a netinst image or a live image, then we will *not* keep that > image as a primary source once the installation is finished. But for > larger images (DVD, BD) we keep it in the sources.list. It's a > difficult choice to make reliably for everybody here... > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. > st...@einval.com > Mature Sporty Personal > More Innovation More Adult > A Man in Dandism > Powered Midship Specialty > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brian Wengel <m40636...@gmail.com> > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:35:28 +0100 > Subject: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror > > Package: debian-installer > > Version: debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso, from 2019-03-16 > > > After a clean installation this in the content of the sources.list: > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > DVD Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD > Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main > > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib > > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main > contrib > > I guess you can always argue if this is a bug. > But I will claim that by far the waste majority of Debian users want to > have the selected mirror in the installation to be the primary repository, > not the, in many ways, useless CD-ROM. > Wouldn't it be more fair that the very few that actually want the CD-ROM > to be the primary repositor, are the one who has to modify the > sources.list? And not the waste majority of the users. > And if they don't, they can just skip selecting a mirror in the > installation, and then the CD-ROM should be the repository. > > install log attached. >
