Nikos Voutsinas wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install some additional packages via a custom .udeb > that run just before finish-install step of the debian installer > (which runs with priority critical). What seems to be tricky is how > to lower the debconf priority for these *specific* packages and get > prompted for questions of these packages that have lower than > critical priority. > > The following lines from the udeb postinst script doesn't work. > > . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > set -e > db_set debconf/priority medium || true > /bin/apt-install ssmtp > > I suspect that this is a file descriptor problem, because when I try > the following command lines from another VT it works as expected > debconf-set debconf/priority medium > /bin/apt-install ssmtp > > Any ideas? You need to isolate whether the problem is on the d-i side or on the /target chroot side. Try displaying a question at medium priority before the apt-install and see if it is displayed. Use in-target to see what DEBIAN_PRIORITY value gets communicated into the chroot. -- see shy jo
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