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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:32, Mathieu L wrote:
> > -->I'm not sure to know what means ¨root¨ in iso-root but if the programs
> > just above are the only one which are gonna be on the 1.0 iso, it will
> > definitely lack something for people like me behind a university NAT. To
> > access the internet I need to log in on an https webpage so I cannot cast
> > anything until I've logged authentified myself on this webpage. What I did
> > last time I installed smgl is that I downloaded with my Deb the sources
> for
> > lynx and something else which was required to have https support (I think
> > it was openssl) and then I put them in the directory for the sources on
> > smgl and I was finally able to cast them. But it was not very convenient
> > and it wouldn't have been possible without my Deb. So in case there are
> > other people like me, I say it would be nice to have the sources for a
> > basic browser with https support from the beginning on the ISO. If I'm
> > blind and it's already the case, sorry for that... :-)
> 
> the iso_root is the cd itself that boots and runs the installer.
> Is a https browser needed by others too ?
> I had planned on adding links-twibright as an optional spell for 
> installation
>  
> but should I be thinking about adding it to the iso_root also ?
> 
> This also brings up another point, how many people out there are keeping  
> stories like this to themselves ? If people are coming across problems 
> during
> 
> installation please report them. Big or small report them. 
> There is no point in me doing any of this if it does not fulfill peoples 
> needs, so if you have  ideas, or problems, bring them up and we can create 
> solutions.
> The days of the ISO not being a subject for discussion are over.
> Bugs in bugzilla are good too, I like being able to login to my bookmarked 
> ISO/cauldron page and see exactly what bugs exist, instead of trawling 
> through hundreds of emails and the forums looking for a single comment I 
> have
> 
> forgotten.

I believe several universities are going towards this approach, especially for
wireless connections (though ours needs the Cisco VPN client, which I don't
want us to bother with at this time anyways).

I ask people on the forums to file bugs if we cannot resolve it there, or if 
it
truly is a bug that we worked around.

And this goes for any part of SMGL; if you find a bug, report it on
bugs.sourcemage.org (not the ML or forums or IRC) as that's where we track the
bugs (hence "bugs".sourcemage.org) otherwise it may get lost, even if we talk
about it on the ML/forums/IRC, though it's fine to discuss it on those mediums
first, but unless it's a PEBKAC error, file it for us. ;)

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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