Re: systemd woes continue

On 7/17/19 15:50, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 7/17/19 15:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>> To sum things up: what Adrian intends to do for Alpha - pre-include the
>>> firmware on the installer discs - seems to be the only way to get this
>>> problem fixed w/o manual intervention during installation.
>>
>> It's also the standard way how it's done. debian-cd (the software used to
>> build the CD images) supports adding firmware packages. But the problem
>> is that firmware packages are usually part of the non-free suite which is
>> not available in Debian Ports but on the main Debian repositories only.
>>
>> However, the main repositories and the Debian Ports repositories are
>> separate mirrors and currently, debian-cd does not support more than
>> one mirror during CD image build.
>
> Ok, could it work when using the CDN (deb.debian.org) as described on
> [2]? Or does this just redirect to the actual ports mirror for ports
> architectures?
>
> [2]: https://www.ports.debian.org/mirrors

Probably not, as [3] shows that one still needs to use different
directories for the different targets.

[3]: http://deb.debian.org/

Ok, what about a redirect on the Debian-Ports mirror for a
"/debian-ports/pool/non-free/" directory to e.g.
"http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free"? Apt seems to support
redirects.

Cheers,
Frank