Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:52:30AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:

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

Ah, so it isn't a script at all, then.  It sounds very cool!  Do you
consider it complete?  Would it benefit from additional testing from the
Hoary community?

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 - mdz