Re: Suggestion for choose-mirror

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:40:52PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables 
> > are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
> >
> > II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
> > http_proxy=http://example.com:3128/
> >    
>
> I expect that you can already do this using
> mirror/http/proxy=http://example.com:3128/ at the kernel boot prompt.
>
>  
>
> > This would go some way to automating the install prcedure, especially if 
> > the idea's adapted to other packages.
> >    
>
> Since d-i uses debconf, most questions are pre-answerable like this.
>
>  
Where are the Qs and As documented?

It would be pretty trivial to front-end d-i to get a text file 
containing some shell script to set these.



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