Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
IMO if its package archive master isn't hosted on <foo>.debian.org, it isn't "real" Debian; stuff like aptosid and grml are just as much Debian *derivatives* as Ubuntu (cf. "pure blends") -- they just happen to be less divergent (at least, for now).
Aptosid's primary policy and reason for existence is compatibility with Debian-unstable. The Aptosid repo is an add-on to provide stabilisation packages only, to the best of my understanding: Your system consults the Debian-sid repo for almost everything, the add-on Aptosid repo furnshing only bugfixes for sid packages. All contents of the Aptosid repo (and installer images) must comply with Debian Policy and the Debian Social Contract.
OK, clearly I was misinformed.
(As for me, I usually use syslinux to load the d-i netboot installer via PXE or USB, and then pull everything else (including the udebs) from the local deb mirror over HTTP. Who even HAS an optical drive anymore? Fing o' der parst!)
Indeed, what's an ISO for other than loop-mounting it on one's Web or NFS server? Oh, you forgot that using an ISO doesn't require an optical drive, didn't you? ;->
Well, sans optical media, there are better choices than ISO. rsync -r and squashfs spring to mind. But I take your point. And of course there is isohybrid in syslinux 4...