Using /cdrom/.disk/udeb_(in|ex)clude to load custom udebs instead of d-i's?

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

Hi guys,

I'm playing with the latest debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso.  One of the 
things I want to do is automate the network configuration process in an 
environment where DHCP is not an option.  Actually, what I want is for the 
debian installer to look up the network settings according to the hardware 
addresses it finds.  So what I've done is I've created my own netcfg udeb 
package, which I've named tiem.netcfg, that provides configured-network.  On 
the iso image, I've created a .disk/ directory and placed within the file 
udeb_exclude, which contains the single line:

netcfg

And the file udeb_include, which contains the single line:

tiem.netcfg

If I understand available-hooks.txt right, this should tell the debian 
installer to load my tiem.netcfg udeb instead of the debian installer's netcfg, 
but it doesn't.  It loads netcfg anyway.

As the installer runs and d-i's netconfig sits there waiting for me to type in 
an address I can switch to another terminal and load my udebs by hand using 
udpkg, and my udebs work, they're just not being loaded *instead of* the 
default udeb.

Anyone have an idea what I've done wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Michael Peek