Bug#806900: Problem still in stretch rc1 installer

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:29:14PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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>On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 10:12 +0100, Allan Jacobsen wrote:
>> HI
>> 
>> OK, I do understand you point, but my problem is that I have been hired as a
>> cunsultant to set up PXE boot with preseed to install different linux dists,
>> and I can not put a wwid that I don't know into the preseed file, but have to
>> use the friendly name.
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>Well. YOu should be able to.. WWID are unique. Both the target and the initiator
>report the same.
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>> This works fine with ubuntu, but not with debian, because you wont apply the
>> patch.
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>:-)
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>That is not my package. Debian Installer team maintains them. I'm just
>mentioning my view as the maintainer of multipath-tools package.

You probably know more about this than most people, though. Is there
any downside to accepting the patch?

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