Shall we support the autorun feature?

Scott James Remnant scott at canonical.com
Tue Jan 4 09:38:56 CST 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:31 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Scott James Remnant [2005-01-04 13:59 +0000]:
> > > It should be noted that our only use case so far - automatic Ubuntu CD
> > > upgrades - does not need this feature. This was solved by a hal script
> > > that checks whether an inserted CD is an Ubuntu one.
> > > 
> > How does this solve the primary use-case?
> > 
> > lit. "warty user puts the hoary CD in their drive"
> 
> - user puts in the drive
> - hal notices this, creates new volume and executes the callout
>   scripts
> - Michael provided a callout script that checks whether a CD is an
>   Ubuntu package CD
> - this callout script then triggers the startup of the upgrading
>   application
> 
Where does this callout script go?

Scott
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