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Bug#538265: marked as done (Add disable netcfg preseed option)

Your message dated Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:36:51 +0000
with message-id <E1NjP6J-0003tx-FO@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#538265: fixed in netcfg 1.52
has caused the Debian Bug report #538265,
regarding Add disable netcfg preseed option
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: netcfg
Version: 1.46
Severity: wishlist
Tags: lenny
I have a situation where I want to use a single, custom debian installer initrd, but want to preseed network configuration differences between production cdrom and development netboot installers.
The systems in the field should not have networking enabled at all. With the stock Lenny installer, on systems with wireless cards and no proprietary firmware blobs, you get scary red error screens during the install complaining about network errors. If you add the firmware blobs to the d-i just to shut up the errors, and if the hardware switch is turned off, you again get scary red error screens about network errors.
I don't want *any* networking on the cdrom installs, but I also want to use a consistent initrd between development and production to avoid possible bugs from using different installers.
Enter this patch. It allows me to optionally disable network configuration completely via preseed on the cdrom install, but leaves the default to enabled for netboot. The attached patch may be a horrible, ugly hack based on the d-i design, but it works for me. If you don't like this patch, can you add a similar capability going forward? 
Thanks!

Tony


diff -urN netcfg-1.46.orig/debian/netcfg-common.templates netcfg-1.46/debian/netcfg-common.templates
--- netcfg-1.46.orig/debian/netcfg-common.templates	2008-08-09 19:34:13.000000000 +0000
+++ netcfg-1.46/debian/netcfg-common.templates	2009-07-24 15:27:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Template: netcfg/enable_netcfg
+Type: boolean
+Default: true
+# :sl1:
+_Description: Enable network configuration during Install?
+ This option can be preseeded for cdrom installs and will cause the
+ installer to ignore any network configurations. Note that after the
+ install, the user must manually configure any networking options.
+
 Template: netcfg/use_dhcp
 Type: boolean
 Default: true
Binary files netcfg-1.46.orig/debian/.netcfg-common.templates.swp and netcfg-1.46/debian/.netcfg-common.templates.swp differ
diff -urN netcfg-1.46.orig/netcfg.c netcfg-1.46/netcfg.c
--- netcfg-1.46.orig/netcfg.c	2008-08-09 19:34:15.000000000 +0000
+++ netcfg-1.46/netcfg.c	2009-07-24 15:33:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@
     /* initialize debconf */
     client = debconfclient_new();
     debconf_capb(client, "backup");
+
+    /* Check to see if netcfg should be run at all */
+    debconf_get(client, "netcfg/enable_netcfg");
+    if ( strcmp(client->value, "false") == 0 ) {
+        netcfg_write_loopback();
+        return 0;
+    }
     
     /* always always always default back to DHCP, unless you've specified
      * disable_dhcp on the command line. */

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Source: netcfg
Source-Version: 1.52

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
netcfg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

netcfg-static_1.52_amd64.udeb
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg-static_1.52_amd64.udeb
netcfg_1.52.dsc
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.52.dsc
netcfg_1.52.tar.gz
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.52.tar.gz
netcfg_1.52_amd64.udeb
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.52_amd64.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 538265@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> (supplier of updated netcfg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:02:42 -0300
Source: netcfg
Binary: netcfg netcfg-static
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.52
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
Description: 
 netcfg     - Configure the network (udeb)
 netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb)
Closes: 538265 566006
Changes: 
 netcfg (1.52) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Aurelien Jarno ]
   * Loopback network interface name is lo on GNU/Linux and lo0 on
     GNU/kFreeBSD; generalize it with a macro.
   * Build the netcfg binary package on sh4.
 .
   [ Otavio Salvador ]
   * Add support to disable network configuration using preseeding in
     netcfg/enable template. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey
     <tony@awtrey.com> for the patch. Closes: #538265
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * On Linux, feed the output of 'ip addr show' into /dev/random after the
     network is up to improve entropy. Idea picked up from Theodore Y. Ts'o,
     http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/8/108.
   * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
   * Tell dhclient to wait for netcfg/dhcp_timeout seconds before exiting
     (closes: #566006, LP: #315231).
 .
   [ Otavio Salvador ]
   * Use busybox' udhcpc by default but kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386
     since they lack support in busybox at this moment.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Remove no longer needed Lintian override for missing Standards-
     Version field.
   * Disable wireless support for s390.
   * Fix FTBS on s390 caused by upgrade to debhelper v7.
   * Drop support for the discontinued lpia architecture.
   * Improve test for presence of dhcp/dhcp3.
   * Don't ship unnecessary/unused dhcp directories.
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