Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes: > Hi, > > Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (2015-11-16): >> In Kali, we rely on initrd preseeding to set a bunch of Debconf entries >> because it's the only sane way to ensure that we have those during netboot >> too. >> >> Unfortunately, it makes it very hard for end-users to change some of >> those entries... editing initrd is not the best interface. It would >> be very nice if there was a way to override such preseeding with the >> (kernel) boot command line. >> >> Right now env-preseed runs before initrd-preseed: >> $ ls debian-installer-startup.d/ >> S30env-preseed S35initrd-preseed S60auto-install >> >> I'm not sure what is the rationale for this order but if we don't want to >> swap the order, then I would suggest that we introduce a new syntax that >> let us do this operation. >> >> I think inverting the order of both script would make a lot of sense. I >> tried to find reasons not to but there is no intermediary script between >> S30 and S35 and thus except for the precedence of preseeding, it has no >> other impact AFAIK. >> >> Otherwise if not possible I suggest "mirror/hostname!=http://my.mirror"; as >> alternative syntax, somewhat mirroring the already existing ?= syntax >> (with the exclamation mark conveying the notion of "forcing") but I'm >> happy with any other syntax that you might prefer. >> >> Phil & Cyril, please share your opinions/preference as I'll probably try >> to implement this soonish. > > I'm afraid I don't have time to spend on figuring out all the possible > consequences of such a move… It seems like it ought to be mostly harmless, and probably ought to have been like that all along (it certainly makes sense to me to have the harder-to-set preseeds over-ridden by the easier-to-set ones). You should probably give it a try and see if anything breaks. :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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