Re: Reformulation of criticisms about console-setup switch (was: Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long])
On Monday 29 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:03:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > On Monday 29 June 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:55:28PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > > > > But I think it is preferable to configure the keyboard of the
> > > > > host even if its keyboard is not used during the installation.
> > > >
> > > > I wrote this about installs on serial console, not about UML
> > > > installs.
> > >
> > > In a lot of cases the system does not *have* a keyboard...
> > >
> > > I have a completely headless HPPA box. And we do need c-s for HPPA
> > > because there are also HPPA systems that _do_ have keyboards.
> >
> > Should I add one additional question or preseeding is enough?
>
> No, you need to implement automatic detection for this case.
Better: c-s needs to support automatic detection for this case.
> Please see kbd-chooser.c. It's not all that hard to find the code, nor
> should it be all that hard to implement it in C. See also the 90console
> script in finish-install.
>
> It would also be a good idea for you to run kbd-chooser in expert mode
> some time so you can see how the "no keyboard" question is implemented.
> It's not a separate question...
Not that c-s needs to implement it in exactly the same way, but it should
give you a better understanding of what exactly the current functionality
is that c-s is aiming to replace.
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