Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 September 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Well, as a debian-cd co-maintainer, I thought about this too, but I didn't like the idea very much. It would mean 2 supplementary variables that should be used instead of $CODENAME or $DI_CODENAME in various places and that should default to

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Frans Pop wrote: It seems a bit strange to me to have a derived distribution as CD release that's not backed up by it's own archive, and thus mirrors. I'd say that if you want to use different codenames, you should start by creating an archive that has those codenames.

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Now, the alternative is to not create the symlinks and have a way to tell debian-cd “well CODENAME is foo, but for boot-enabling scripts, please use those of lenny”. I agree that as simple-cdd is the wrapper here that has the goal of

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:52:03PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: Currently the CODENAME given is used both to select the distribution to download from the mirror and the distribution to create in the local mirror. Given that debian-cd will only