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Bug#468960: network-console type images assume sshd will be installed



On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:37:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> > TYPE = network-console images, such as di-nslu2.bin, assume that
> > an sshd flavour will be installed in the target system, and have
> > no provisions to force its installation in case it isn't selected
> > by user choice in tasksel.
> 
> Incorrect. The network-console postinst has:
> # Queue installation of ssh to make sure we can log in after reboot
> apt-install openssh-server || true

Perhaps that should display an error if apt-install returns non-zero,
rather than just carrying on. Robert's problem could have been a
transient failure installing openssh-server, which should have been
detected rather than ignored.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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