On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:30, Joey Hess wrote: > Currently values passed on the command-line only affect d-i first > stage. Would it be useful if they also affected second-stage, like > other preseeded values, or would this lead to problems? I suspect > booting with debconf/frontend=text could be problimatic or at least > suprising if it affected deconf, for example. Still, the consistency > would be nice. Gut reaction: command line params should be limited to 1st stage, all else is confusing. Exception: debconf/priority, which is indirect anyway. IMO there's a real difference between using a preseed file and passing command line options. > I have a kind of solution to the problem of these variables being > sometimes annoyingly long: globbing. */framebuffer=false, > */locale=en_US, */keymap=us. Does this make sense, or look too ugly to > expect users to type it? Using the glob preserves the current indicator > of a debconf environment variable (the /), and also indicates rather > well that this setting may apply to more than one thing. I can think of > two ways to implement it, the better way would be a cdebconf db that is > put in the stack and looks up values from globs. Another option would be to define specific synonyms, like d-i for debian-installer (probably the only one really needed).
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