Bug#502850: debian-installer: D-I fails to process some correct (!) preseed files
> On Monday 20 October 2008, Durk Strooisma wrote:
>> Splitting up a value is not mentioned here, nor as good place, nor as
>> bad place. I guess this should be listed as bad practise as well, to
>> prevent this usage.
>
> It also says:
> Put only a single space or tab between type and value: any additional
> whitespace will be interpreted as belonging to the value.
>
> That can be expanded to "any additional whitespace inside the value is
> interpreted as belonging to the value.
Yeah, I know and I thought it wouldn't be a problem, because APT doesn't
care about lots of whitespace anyway. And as it always worked, except for a
few files on amd64 (like 100:1), I didn't realise it could be totally wrong,
using line continuation.
> Another reason your preseed file is incorrect is that you're missing a
> tab or space after "tasksel tasksel/first multiselect". An empty
> value is allowed, but you still need the separator between the type
> and the value. It may well be that that is the real cause for the
> error.
Hmm that wasn't careful of me. I fixed it, but it didn't help. Anyhow, it
wouldn't have explained why it IS working on i386.
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