Re: Writing udebs

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

Michael S. Peek wrote:

> Hello again gurus,
>
> I'm attempting to update a couple of small udebs to work under etch 
> and I've run into a snag.  For some reason I seem to be killing 
> /sbin/debian-installer with my udebs and I don't know what's causing it.

Aha!  Got it!

The problem was a combination of old script that I had ripped from 
sarge's preseed stuff and the use of a db_stop command in my script.

The correct answer is:

#!/bin/sh

set -e
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
. /lib/preseed/preseed.sh

___my_name=$(basename $0 ".postinst")

log () {
   while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
       logger -t "${___my_name}" -- "$@"
       shift
   done
}

log_output () {
   while read line; do
       log "| ${line}"
   done
}

preseed_fetch () {
   local url="${1}"
   local dst="${2}"
   local src="${1#file://*}"

   if [ ! -e "${src}" ] || ! cp "${src}" "${dst}" ; then
       return 1
   else
       return 0
   fi
}

set_netcfg_interface () {
       db_register debian-installer/dummy netcfg/choose_interface
       db_set netcfg/choose_interface "${1}"
       db_subst netcfg/choose_interface ID netcfg/choose_interface
       db_fset netcfg/choose_interface seen true
}

log "Searching for network card(s)..."
dev_list=$( \
   ifconfig -a 2>&1 \
   | grep '^[^ ]' \
   | cut -d' ' -f1 \
   | grep -v '^lo$' \
   )

db_get multi-netcfg/preseed-dir
dir="${RET}"

log "Auto-NetCfg Dir: ${dir}"
for dev in ${dev_list}; do
   hwaddr=$( \
       ifconfig -a \
       | grep ${dev} \
       | grep HWaddr \
       | cut -b39- \
       | sed 's, ,,g' \
       )
   log "Found device: ${dev} (HWaddr: ${hwaddr})"
   file=$(echo "${hwaddr}" | sed 's,:,-,g')
   log "Searching for File or Dir: ${dir}/${file}"
   if [ -f "${dir}/${file}" ]; then
       log "Found file"
       set_netcfg_interface ${dev}
       preseed_location "file://${dir}/${file}"
   elif [ -d "${dir}/${file}" ]; then
       log "Found directory"
       set_netcfg_interface ${dev}
       ls -1 "${dir}/${file}/" \
       | while read line; do
           if [ -f "${line}" ]; then
               log "Reading file: ${line}"
               preseed_location "file://${line}"
           else
               log "Skipping subdirectory: ${line}"
           fi
       done
   else
       log "No such file or directory found"
   fi
done

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