On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, Joey Hess wrote: > I wonder if we could add basic database preseeding support in time for > sarge? Here is a very off-the-cuff design. > > - Use debconf-set-selections/debconf-get-selections file format for the > preseeding file. > - Add a preseed udebs. Make pressed/url, if it's set, wget the url > (which could be a file:/ url). This udeb will need to run after > cdrom-detect, iso-scan, and netcfg, so network or removiable media > are available, so main-menu menu item #21 or so. > > I guess this would not be hard to write, and it could be useful, > although it doesn't really take advantage of cdebconf as well as it > could (by using a different database backend, say). Maybe it's worth > doing it in time for sarge.. I'm already a fan of you, but if you could do it I would really become yours 1st fan :-) That's a killer feature and would allow for a whole new world of possibilities. This, coupled with some nice partman recipes, would allow one to do real unateended installs. -- ++----------------------------------------------------------------------++ || André Luís Lopes andrelop@debian.org || || http://people.debian.org/~andrelop || || Debian-BR Project http://www.debian-br.org || || Public GPG KeyID 9D1B82F6 ||
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