Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:33:26PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

It's part of the upgrade-notifier. If you run upgrade notifier it will
hook into libhal and monitor for mount events. If you run
upgrade-notifier and you insert a new (not-yet-seen) ubuntu cd in the
drive it will prompt and ask if it should should start the package
manager with it. 

thanks,
 Michael
 
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