Bug#709017: /e/n/i getting overwritten after late_command of preseed
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:12:53PM +0100, Roberto Carlos Morano wrote:
> I've came across with the same problem and I think that the attached
> patch could do the job to fix this weird scenario. It looks if file
> already exists and only overwrites it "in-target" if it doesn't.
>
> Since '/e/n/i' is already written by 'debian-installer' itself in
> previous steps, I think it makes no sense to overwrite it again when
> installation is almost complete.
>
> It doesn't make sense neither if the file already exists for any
> reason (in e.g.: you create it in any other installation step like the
> case mentioned in 'debian-users' list [1]), so the only case I think
> it makes sense to set the '/e/n/i' file at that installation stage is
> if there isn't one already.
This is wrong, I'm afraid. /etc/network/interfaces will *always* exist
at this stage, because it's copied by netcfg's base-installer hook.
However, the finish-install hook is explicitly using "netcfg
write_loopback" in some cases to make sure that /etc/network/interfaces
contains only the loopback entry. Declining to copy this to the target
system would break those cases.
What I'll do instead is copy /etc/network/interfaces only for the
netcfg/target_network_config settings that require it. Then this may
just work for you if you don't have network-manager installed, and
otherwise you can use:
d-i netcfg/target_network_config select ifupdown
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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