Bug#284289: partial preseeding after manual partman
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote:
> Your preseed.cfg is misformatted:
>
> joey@dragon:~>debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg
> error: parse error on line 267: 'ent and received directly using SMTP'
> zsh: exit 1 debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg
>
> This appears to be a simple line wrap mistake. Note that preseed is much
> less picky about this than debconf-set-selections, since it's
> implemented in a much less capable language where checking everything
> that debconf-set-selections does would be hard.
ooh thanks for catching that!
how about belows patch to the example syslinux.cfg:
Index: installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml
===================================================================
--- installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (revision 24247)
+++ installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (working copy)
@@ -312,6 +312,10 @@
# debconf-get-selections --installer > file
# debconf-get-selections >> file
+# Debconf has much stricter validity checks. It catches errors like line
+# wrap mistakes. You may want to check the validity of your syslinux.cfg:
+# debconf-set-selections < syslinux.cfg
+
# If you like, you can include other preseed files into this one.
# Any settings in those files will override pre-existing settings from this
# file. More that one file can be listed, separated by spaces; all will be
--
maks
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