Re: late_command is in never-never-land?

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:26:50PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:37, Shachar Or wrote:
...
> I was given advice in #debian-boot to use in-target for this purpose, so I've 
> solved it like this:
> 
> d-i preseed/late_command string wget -q -O - 
> http://ahava/d-i/etch/late_command.sh > /target/root/late_command.sh && chmod 
> u+x /target/root/late_command.sh && in-target '/root/late_command.sh' 
> >> /var/log/syslog

You might want to try this:

  d-i preseed/late_command string preseed-fetch late_command.sh /target/root/late_command.sh && in-target 'sh /root/late_command.sh'

preseed-fetch has the advantage that it gets stuff from wherever you
got the preseed files, so you can write scripts that are portable from
a preseed setup on your web server, to a copy of the same on an USB
stick, say.

The use of sh id just to make it more concise than doing the chmod,
but that's just a personal preference.

Have a look at http://hands.com/d-i/ for more examples of preseed-fetch,
and lots of scripting stuff.

Cheers, Phil.
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