Hi Magnus, Magnus Määttä <magnus@novell.stoldgods.nu> (2019-07-12): > I'm also having this issue which is making it impossible to upgrade to > Debian 10 from Debian 9. > > I'm depending on the possibility to add a repo during PXE-boot. Using > late-commands is not an option as there doesn't seem to be any > $selected_packages variable I can use to actually install the packages > selected during installtion, while ignoring the fact that it's going > to try to install them without the repo available, making the > installation fail anyway. > > Someone gave the recommendation to use different preseed files, but > that also is not an option as the boot menu would need to have 50-100 > entries to accommodate for the most common options of package > selections (which will make the size of the installation vary between > 15GB and 80GB). > > So for us, this is a real show stopper for using Debian 10 as it makes > it impossible to install (manual installation is not an option).. We're aware of the issue and we've already sketched out an outline to get the fix into unstable (then migration to testing) but also into a point release. “Me too”-like messages mean distraction and wasted time, so it would be great if we could avoid getting more of them. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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