Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > If you need to generate your own Packages files, which you might want to > > do for various reasons, you could instead add Task: overrides to the > > Packages files. Then use 'tasksel install' (that command may need to be > > fixed first) to install the task. This would sidestep the dependency > > problem. > > This would only work with CD installs, where we can control the > packages file. I would like it to work with network installs as well, > so I want another mechanism. You should be able to control the Packages files for network installs too. Just put them up on a server with a debian mirror and the skolelinux packages, and modify choose-mirror and apt-setup to use that mirror. > > As discussed at DebConf, I would like to make debconf have better > > support for pre-populating a database, when I find some time to work > > on it. > > I believe it should be part of d-i and base-config, to make sure all > custom distributions use the same mechanism. We could just copy the > Skolelinux method into base-config, or come up with some other method > if you do not like that. It has to work around some infelicities in debconf that I want to fix in debconf. I agree that base-config should have a standard way to preseed debconf. -- see shy jo
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