Re: Hook to preload debconf answers

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]
> Is there any (semi)-official hook in d-i to preload answers to
> debconf database?

Hi.  Nice to see more interest in the preloading of debconf answers. :)

First of all, there are two different systems at work here.  The first
stage is called d-i, and uses cdebconf, while the second stage is
called base-config and uses debconf.

There is no streamlines system for preloading the cdebconf database in
d-i at the moment.  There are a semi-manual way to do it, by supplying
a prebuilt database when the d-i "floppies" are built.

On the other hand, for the second stage which is doing the actuall
package installation, there is a system to do this.  It is very new,
and not documented yet.  The tools doing the work is in the debconf
package.  Check debconf-get-selections and debconf-set-selections.
The hooks in base-config to load the answers are not uploaded into the
archive yet.