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Bug#476388: partman-auto-crypto: Allow preseeding of the skip_erase flag



On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:22:11PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> This wishlist is extracted for T. Nan's request [1] posted on the
> debian-boot mailling-list.
> 
> partman-auto-crypto should define a debconf question (for preseeding
> only) that would make it define the skip_erase flag for the encrypted
> partition.  This would allow one to bypass the lengthly erasing step
> when doing automated installations.

Surely this is what partitioning recipes are for. Why not just put:

  skip_erase{ }

... in the recipe? (If that doesn't work, then I think it should be made
to.)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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