Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:44 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Scott James Remnant [2005-01-04 15:38 +0000]:
> > > > 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?
> 
> /etc/hal/device.d/, I suppose. The script sends a message to the
> upgrade notifier daemon (which runs in the user's session). This
> daemon then initiates the actual upgrading application.
> 
But we didn't put a script like that into warty ... so warty users won't
see anything when they put the CD in.

Scott
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