Re: debconf BUG ?
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:19:37PM +0100, Anthony wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 février 2009 14:46, Colin Watson a écrit :
> |> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:27:15PM +0100, Anthony wrote:
> |> > it seems that a error occur during the partman installation,
> |> >
> |> > the debconf seems to be wrong...
> |> >
> |> > after an install, and a debconf-get-selections --installer
> |> >
> |> > I get somethink like :
> |> >
> |> > "partman-auto partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select 50some_device__________regular"
> |>
> |> I don't see the error; this appears to be as expected. You should be a
> |> bit more verbose when reporting things you think are wrong, really.
>
> sorry
> i forgotted to say that the message occurs during etch-and-a-half installation...
>
> AND
>
> i just wanted to know if it is a bug or not and If t's a bug, inform
> about this bug...:!!!!
No, it's not a bug.
> and i know,
>
> read doc..;
>
> i read the doc B
>
> and i don't agree with you, doc has not copious informations :
> the only information about partitionning is :
> ### Partitioning
> # If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
> #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
>
> do you think this has copious about init_automatically_partition ?
It would help if you read a little bit further rather than misquoting
what I said ...
partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is *not* normally the question
that you want to preseed in order to perform automatic partitioning;
normally, you would instead preseed partman-auto/disk and
partman-auto/method, and perhaps either partman-auto/choose_recipe or
partman-auto/expert_recipe if you aren't satisfied with the default
partition layout.
The only case in practice where you'd want to preseed
partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is that documented in the
installation guide, quoted above, where you want to automatically
partition only free space on a disk that already contains other
partitions.
If you need detailed information on the format of
partman-auto/expert_recipe, it's here:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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