Re: Patch to build-simple-cdd
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:30:20PM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
>> This patch actually does two things (well two and a half because of
>> bug 406320).
>
> i reported a similar bug for i386, but apparently it only got fixed for
> i386. seeing as it's been a problem, maybe i'll keep the workaround you
> proposed (for a while, there was a workaround in build-simple-cdd for
> this).
Steve McIntyre said:
Yup. This went into the svn version of debian-cd quite a while back,
and it's about time we uploaded a new package to match.
So this bug will not be around for long.
>> It gives you the option of specifying a keyboard layout (--keyboard), so
>> that d-i will go away doing its thing and not speak to you until it asks
>> which profile you wish to install,
>
> nice. another way i've been meaning to look into to accomplish this is
> to use debian-installer's "auto" mode, so that you could include the
> keyboard/language/country settings in the regular preseed file.
I know nothing about this...
>> and add an option to ignore debconf
>> preseed errors (--force-preseed), which allows you to build a CD as a
>> non-root user and still preseed questions only root has access to.
>
> well, as for building preseeds, i don't think there are any questions
> that non-root users can't configure.
This is to allow preseeding of questions listed in
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat, such as:
passwd passwd/root-password password r00tme
Unless root, /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections fails:
mking@knight:~/src/Sphere/profiles$ /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections --checkonly default.preseed
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
error: Cannot find a question for passwd/root-password
error: Cannot find a question for passwd/root-password-again
Command (511) failed with exit code: 1
> debconf-set-selections run as a non-root user will produce a warning
> about not being able to read the debconf passwords database, but that
> shouldn't in any way prevent you from including any question you want in
> your preseeding. i'll look into suppressing the warning message, and
> consider how to implement your patch in a way consistant with the coding
> style of simple-cdd.
It doesn't when debconf-set-selections is not followed immediately by
'|| exit 1', which is what the patch changes (albeit in an ugly way).
Matthew
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