Replying to mail from 2012, yikes! Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > I like this idea, but i'd prefer to have the special variable be > DEBIRF_MIRROR_RUNTIME somehow. That is, my main conception of > DEBIRF_MIRROR is that it tells debirf where to pull from when it's > building the image. debirf images themselves might never pull from an > apt repository in their life. > > Another approach with the same results would be to introduce a module > that just replaces (or augments) /etc/apt/sources.list. This has the > advantage of being more flexible by permitting you to specify more than > one repository, specifying an additional repository in addition to the > main one, etc. > > What do you think makes the most sense?
The idea of replacing sources.list (or just adding sources.list.d/ stuff?) is good, but I am also hoping to be able to use the rescue profile directly without needing any of my own modules. BTW my work around for this bug has been to use the same DNS CNAME record in the build location and the boot location, "mirror". But that only works if you can control DNS/DHCP. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org
