Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:44:32PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Scott James Remnant [2005-01-04 15:38 +0000]:
> > > - 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.

This doesn't seem to be in Hoary yet.  Michael, when do you plan to add it,
and to which package? (update-manager?)  I'd be interested to see how it
works, and would like to ensure that the same idea can be applied to
security update CDs.

-- 
 - mdz