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Bug#401652: marked as done (base-installer: mechanism to preseed kernel selection)

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and subject line Bug#401652: base-installer: mechanism to preseed kernel selection
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Package: base-installer
Version: 1.68
Severity: wishlist

as best i can see, there is no way to select a kernel using debconf
preseeding.

i tried:

base-installer  base-installer/kernel/which-kernel      select linux-image-vserver-686
base-installer  base-installer/kernel/image     string linux-image-vserver-686
base-installer  base-installer/kernel/image-2.6 string linux-image-vserver-686

but alas, no luck.

reading base-installer.postinst (though not certain i fully understand
it), it seems like the pick_kernel function just overwrites these
debconf values based one what it detects as available and preferred.

if i exclude all other kernels from the CD image, it selects the
linux-image-vserve-2.6.17-2-vserver-686 image, and it installs fine.
though even then, i'd rather have the more generic meta-package
installed.

could the postinst be written to not override a preseeded value? if not,
could another question be added that overrides the kernel selection
logic?

or am i missing something?

live well,
  vagrant

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Version: 1.83

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:59:23PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> as best i can see, there is no way to select a kernel using debconf
> preseeding.

This has been fixed in base-installer 1.83 and preseeding should now
work as expected.  Feel free to reopen the bug if it is still not the
case. :)

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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