Re: Patch to build-simple-cdd
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:40:10PM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:30:20PM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> > 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.
looks fixed in debian-cd 3.0.0 (though i haven't tested if simple-cdd
still works with that version)
> >> 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
indeed, i was able to confirm this.
either i'm delusional, or debconf-set-selections didn't used to behave
that way (it used to just add missing questions with dummy templates if
necessary).
i'll try to incorporate your workarounds for this issue soon.
live well,
vagrant
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