Bug#725397: preseed: e/n/i is overwritten after late_command

[Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org>]

Package: preseed
Version: 1.58
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a bug in preseed or netcfg.

When doing preseed wheezy installs, we came across an issue using
late_command.  netcfg now has a 55netcfg-copy-config in finish-install.d
which unconditionally overwrites /etc/network/interfaces.

This makes it impossible for the late_command to ensure that this file
is correct.  I'm not sure if the netcfg script should be moved earlier,
the late_command script later or whether netcfg should just check for
the existance of e/n/i and not overwrite it if it's been put in place.

This caused us a few issues during initial boot for various automated
installs until we worked around it with a local hack of running an
extra script from a local udeb after 55netcfg-copy-config.

Thanks,

Mark


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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