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FS#14760 - Mirror selection in installer too unforgiving

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Jakub Gedeon (kazagistar) - Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 06:57 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 19:08 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.02
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When installing, the user must select a mirror. If this step is skipped (for whatever reason... confusion, misunderstanding, laziness), Step 3 (Package selection) fails with a cryptic error.

Possible solutions would be to select a default mirror, or, if you want to force users to select a mirror, make it clear what the mistake was, instead of pointing them to a rather mysterious terminal error output.

Additional info:
* Arch installer FTP 2009.02
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Sunday, 14 June 2009, 19:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 16:05 GMT
archboot isos not affected
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 31 May 2009, 13:21 GMT
tpowa: why not?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 31 May 2009, 13:23 GMT
different routine i guess.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 19:08 GMT
1) archlinux-installer is deprecated. aif supersedes it.
2) It's now a bit more clear for the user he needs to do this. I don't suggest more hand-holding then this.
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=aif.git;a=commitdiff;h=03340455901dc1b6737a351512758b82b4d01deb

feel free to reopen this ticket if you've tested a recent version (now or later) of aif and you still disagree.

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