From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Shannon Sterz <s.sterz@proxmox.com>
Cc: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH installer v2] install: don't select a debian mirror based on the country anymore
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5059097-c152-445d-83a0-e5180e95e731@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCZ6WNQMF79O.DMXTYQWLXMHD@proxmox.com>
Am 22.09.25 um 10:35 AM schrieb Shannon Sterz:
> On Wed Sep 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM CEST, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>> Am 31.07.25 um 11:15 AM schrieb Shannon Sterz:
>>> newer isos ship with new deb822 style repository configurations in
>>> `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources` which already use the now
>>> prefered cdn [1]. since setting a mirror like this does not work
>>> anymore due to this change, just remove it to keep using the prefered
>>> cdn.
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#adding-apt-internet-sources
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Sterz <s.sterz@proxmox.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
>>
>> We could also go ahead and remove adding the mirror information to the
>> country hash in country.pl after this change.
>>
>> html/country.htm also should be updated:
>>
>> The Proxmox Installer automatically makes location-based optimizations,
>> like choosing the nearest mirror to download files from.
>>
>> since it's not the Installer itself doing that anymore.
>
> alright, but we'll need to make some more fix-ups there actually.
Oh, good catch!
> would suggest the following:
>
>> The Proxmox Installer will set up your time zone and keyboard layout.
>> Ensuring that your system behaves as intended once it is up and
>> running.
>
> not really sure what we can say here other than that, as imo most of the
> setup here is fairly self explanatory. the country is now only used to
> narrow the selection of time zones from what i can tell, so we need to
> adapt the text for that too. something like this maybe:
>
>> Country: Narrows down the selection of time zones to make selection
>> easier.
>
> what do you think?
Sounds good to me. Except maybe we can avoid using "selection" twice?
Maybe the "the available time zones"?
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2025-07-31 9:15 Shannon Sterz
2025-09-17 13:38 ` Fiona Ebner
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2025-09-22 8:56 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-09-22 9:11 ` [pve-devel] Superseded: " Shannon Sterz
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