Hi Anton, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:38:48 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:34:57AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > - 0003-Try-and-preseed-a-bit-using-internal-stuff-only-for.patch: > > This is what caused the problems you observed: > > 1. The config script didn't test properly that it is executed d-i environment > > 2. Because of this it attempted to ask the model question. This was > impossible because the udeb had no strings for the keyboard models > (to save space). > > 3. In result the postinst writes XKBMODEL="" in the configuration file. > > 4. Then the main package installed in /target. It asked its questions > because nobody told it not to do so. > > 5. Then a sanity check caused the model question to be asked for second > time in the postinst (because of XKBMODEL="" in the configuration file, > which should be impossible). > > The correct scenario is this: > > 1. The udeb asks it questions and creates a configuration file. > > 2. /usr/lib/base-installer.d/20console-setup copies the configuration > file in /target > > 3. It also marks the questions of keyboard-configuration as seen (I > haven't tested this). > > 4. The main package doesn't reask the questions because their seen flags > are true. > Would it be possible/sensible for the main keyboard-configuration package to not ask any question at a priority higher than 'low' if /etc/default/keyboard already exists, regardless of the 'seen' flag? In any case thanks for the quick turnaround and fix in 1.52! Cheers, Julien
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