On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:32:46PM +0100, David Bolt wrote:
Without coding around the problem, it's going to happen again.
The real issue is naturaly where the problem comes from. What is being checked. Once I know that, I should be able to make a check myself, I hope.
Also it could be that a person wants to use his own CD that he made and gave it whatever name.
At present, it would probably fail. If it appears after the last SUSE CD, the contents file will overwrite the previous one and we're back to square one.
It not only apears that way. It is that way.
That is the difference with your script and mine. You only have to work for you, mine has to work for the rest of the world. ;-)
Well, as I said, I wasn't expecting mine to be released into the wild.
Hence the smiley. ;-)
So many reasons that it is not a real solution.
I know, but there are a few possible solutions.
One would be to check each CD as it's mounted, and the contents copied, to see if it's the first SUSE CD. If it is, make a temporary copy of both ./content and ./media.1/products.
I first would like confirmation that both or one of these files is the wrongdoer. Also this would mean that I might need to check with each and every version, because naming could change. <snip>
Another possible solution would be to build your own ./content and ./media.1/products files. Looking at the i386 version, the ./media.1/products file have a very simple format:
/ SUSE-Linux-CD-OSS-i386 10.1
The ./content is a little more complex but, if you're making an online repository, you're already going to be making a basic one for that. A few minor additions and you could have a quite customised DVD[0].
I will be looking into that and see if that changes anything. Still would love to hear from SUSE what is being checked and how the checking data is being build.
[0] like changing the default language and time-zone. Already asked that and the settings in ./content are not being used. Otherwise it would have changed to my personal settings already. ;-)
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