Re: All D-I's debconf templates in a single HTML page.

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 9/6/2016 7:18 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> while working on preseeding D-I to make Cloud images, I found it a bit
> difficult to figure out the details of this and that debconf template that is
> listed in the preseed.txt example of the installation guide.  Therefore, I
> collated them in a single HTML page.
>
>      https://people.debian.org/~plessy/DebianInstallerDebconfTemplates.html
>
> I would be very intereted to have some feedback on how useful this is, and if
> there would be a more relevant place or format to hold this information.
>
> To create the page I ran the following command in the debian-installer
> directory set up via `myrepos`:
>
>     cat packages/*/debian/*.templates | debconfTemplateToHTML /dev/stdin
>
> debconfTemplateToHTML is a haskell script.  It was great fun to write it, but
> please be kind with my beginner's clumsiness :)  Also, the parsing is not
> perfect, for instance I did not care about unfolding correctly the long
> descriptions, ...
>
>     https://people.debian.org/~plessy/debconfTemplateToHTML.hs
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Charles

*THANK YOU* !!!
I am a newbie who sees that a very peculiar preseed.cfg could do 
much for me.
I've unsuccessfully trying to find out all possible questions 
that could be asked by the installer. Your 
DebianInstallerDebconfTemplates.html may not be the answer I was 
looking for. *BUT* it *AND* your post have already pointed me in 
fruitful directions.