tags 267838 wontfix thanks Quoting Matt Taggart (taggart@debian.org): > This wishlist bug seems like a pretty small corner case. First let > me restate it to make sure I understand correctly. > > You want d-i to do a dhcp request but then use the answers to > define a static config. > > Does that sound right? I guess I can understand wanting to do that, > maybe you don't want to depend on the dhcp server being up all the > time. But if implemented in the way you mention "Do you want to use > the dynamic answers you received as static values?" seems like a > violation of the nature of DHCP and would hurt more users than it would > possibly help. > > I have a similar use case, I want to use a throw away dhcp assigned > address during boot and to load the preseed, but then I want to switch > to a static config. I use the preseed_run script idea documented in > the d-i manual to cause netcfg to rerun. Then later in the preseed > I define the network parameters. > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs04.html#preseed-network > > This could work for your case, but normally this would then mean you > would need one preseed per system, but maybe you could use the > early_command or include_command functions to save the dhcp answers > and set them? > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs05.html#preseed-hooks > > I think this bug might be wontfix. I agree entirely. However, we need to include the original submmitter in the loop if we want his|her advice..:-) Hence doing so and, as the probability of your analysis being right is very high, Matt, I already tag the bug report as wontfix.
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