Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 14/01/18 03:00 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... > Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." > -- Linus Torvalds It's probably the exposure to Windows that does it. -- cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pascal wrote: >Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : >> >> the sizes of the images, particularly in the >> case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be >> able to fit on a DVD or a CD. > >Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : the sizes of the images, particularly in the case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be able to fit on a DVD or a CD. Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of 4.7 GB, like subsequent DVD

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 13:28:17 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > >David Wright wrote: > > >>Perhaps /etc/apt/sources.list could have a one-line pointer to a text > >>file that explained the options available and how to achieve them. > > > >At the very least, to go with the ch

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre wrote: >David Wright wrote: >>On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> * if you've used a bigger (set of) image(s), then you most likely >>>will want to use this again in the future. This is to support >>>people using CD/DVD media sets for insta

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
David Wright wrote: >On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> This is a long-standing design decision that probably merits >> re-examination, yes. The current logic assumes: >> >> * if you've used a "netinst" to install, then you won't want to use >>it again late

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: > hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > > > >This is what happened. > >I decided to install Debian on my smal

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:41:12 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > > indeed, although a relatively mi

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/09/2018 07:54 PM, John Hosack wrote: Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-10 at 05:41, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the >> conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an >> issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But th

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/10/2018 04:41 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > >This is what happened. >I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB >ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion of the > entry in sources.list is not an erro

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-09 at 22:54, John Hosack wrote: > Hello, > > This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: Bug reports need to be filed in the Debian bug tracker, on bugs.debian.org, not mailed to debian-user. You can

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/09/18 19:54, John Hosack wrote: This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debi

Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread John Hosack
Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.3.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso and