Colin Watson wrote: > The attached patch makes netcfg use Choices-C for interface choices > rather than the current weird hack whereby you normally have to preseed > the full English description of the interface but netcfg will let you > get away with just preseeding the interface name. > > Does anyone care if preseeding the full interface description stops > being supported? That is, you would no longer be able to say: > > d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0: Ethernet or FireWire (IEEE 1394) > > ... but would always just use (as previously supported but not > mandatory): > > d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0 > > I figure that the full-description syntax was liable to change anyway as > it was constructed from the description of a debconf template. Yes, I think this change is fine. The full description syntax is not even documented in the manual. > This patch is untested for now, although it does at least compile. I ran a quick test with it, and netcfg segfaulted. I haven't looked at why. :-/ -- see shy jo
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