Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2014-11-18): > Chris Kuehl <ckuehl@ocf.berkeley.edu> (2014-11-17): > > Andrew's patch looks very reasonable to me, as it would allow sysadmins > > to fully automate installs without further complicating the issues > > raised in #712907 (which mostly affect interactive installs). > > > > I've spent a few hours attempting to test the patch, but can't seem to > > properly integrate my locally-built grub-installer udeb into a netboot > > build (either via localudebs or by downloading and unpacking the udeb > > manually from the installer shell). I strongly suspect my own > > incompetence is to blame, though, and not the patch. > > > > I might be missing something, but we can't seem to find any other way to > > fully automate jessie installs via preseeding, like we could with > > wheezy. (For context, our physical machines are split between using > > /dev/sda and /dev/sde for the first hard drive, while VirtualBox uses > > /dev/sda and KVM /dev/vda.) > > grub-installer is fetched from the network in most cases, so it's a bit > hard to use a custom one. I tend to build a netinst CD with easy-build.sh > (from debian-cd.git), which works fine… once you've got a debian-cd thing > configured. > > > I wonder whether the severity of this bug should be raised to important? > > I suspect that automating installs is an important feature for many > > other d-i users, so I'm not sure wishlist is appropriate for this bug. > > > > I'm going to continue attempting to test the patch, and report back if I > > have any luck. > > The severity isn't really important; the fact I've added it to my list > of things to keep an eye on, is. Thanks for the poke. I've finally managed to allocate a few moments to look into it. The patch seems reasonable to me as well, so I've pushed it (along with a few typo fixes) to master, and uploaded a 1.103 package. I'll probably have it hinted into testing shortly. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/commit/?id=67d7246accead493823e34f933aea7887d191ea7 Thanks, Andrew! Mraw, KiBi.
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