[pve-devel] Superseded: Re: [PATCH installer v2] install: don't select a debian mirror based on the country anymore

[Shannon Sterz]

On Mon Sep 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM CEST, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> 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 at proxmox.com>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at 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"?

yep makes sense, consider this

Superseded-by: https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20250922090855.58508-2-s.sterz@proxmox.com/

thanks!