On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:00:35PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Your preseed.cfg is misformatted: > > > > joey@dragon:~>debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg > > error: parse error on line 267: 'ent and received directly using SMTP' > > zsh: exit 1 debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg > > > > This appears to be a simple line wrap mistake. Note that preseed is much > > less picky about this than debconf-set-selections, since it's > > implemented in a much less capable language where checking everything > > that debconf-set-selections does would be hard. > > ooh thanks for catching that! > > how about belows patch to the example syslinux.cfg: > > Index: installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml > =================================================================== > --- installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (revision 24247) > +++ installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (working copy) > @@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ > # debconf-get-selections --installer > file > # debconf-get-selections >> file # debconf-get-selections --installer > preseed.cfg # debconf-get-selections >> preseed.cfg > > +# Debconf has much stricter validity checks. It catches errors like line > +# wrap mistakes. You may want to check the validity of your syslinux.cfg: > +# debconf-set-selections < syslinux.cfg > + +# Debconf has much stricter validity checks. It catches errors like line +# wrap mistakes. You may want to check the validity of your preseed.cfg +# debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg + > # If you like, you can include other preseed files into this one. > # Any settings in those files will override pre-existing settings from this > # file. More that one file can be listed, separated by spaces; all will be If the usefull test hint makes it into the manual, then please use consistent filenames. Cheers Geert Stappers
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