Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Scott James Remnant [2005-01-04 15:48 +0000]:
> > 
> > /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.

Just to clarify: the pmount policy has nothing to do with CD upgrades.
Since CD-ROM drives are in /etc/fstab in Hoary, autorun would even
work if it was enabled in g-v-m. 

The problem is just that it is disabled by default, and not many users
will have enabled it, so we cannot rely on that.

Martin

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