Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:08:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there
> > > > should be an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue
> > > > auto-install for images that don't have netcfg.
> > >
> > > Hmmm. I think it could even pull in both auto-install and ai-choosers
> > > and thus leave ai-choosers out of the images as well.
> >
> > Gah! It's even worse. ai-chooser just blindly assumes that all images
> > include both localechooser and kbd-chooser while that is not guaranteed.

Yup, that's certainly true -- sorry, didn't realise it was ever not the case.

> Here's a final patch set that should address the current deficiencies (and 
> allows for console-setup too).
> 
> Phil: any comments?
> 

Definitely looks like an improvement -- I take it that this is just
keeping netcfg out of the initrd, and will have no impact on the ability
of the CD to get on the net to grab preseeds as it'll be installing
netcfg off the CD?

I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to test it in the next week, as I'm
off skiing on the weekend, but I will endeavour to do some tests when I
get back.

Cheers, Phil.