Re: Preseeding questions
On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:13:05 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/11/2019 08:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-11-11 14:34:53)
> > > When I first used Debian, I found preseeding could handle the many of
> > > my needs/desires. I wish to explore further.
> > >
> > > Where my might I find an exhaustive list of questions which may be
> > > preseeded?
> >
> > Since debconf values are defined and processed by each package, you can
> > only find an exhaustive list inside the complete package set to be
> > installed on the target system - e.g. by installing a draft system and
> > query the debconf database there.
> >
> > Beware that some debconf processing done by by debian-installer is
> > declared by special "udeb" packages normally only installed temporarily
> > during install, and therefore will only appear in debconf database of
> > systems actually installed using debian-installer - not e.g. if creating
> > a draft system in a chroot using debootstrap, multistrap, mmdebstrap or
> > some of the related tools skipping the use of those udeb packages.
> >
>
> Thank you.
>
> Preseeding can evidently used in ways I never thought of.
> What I thought I was asking for was a list of all questions I would *see*
> while running the installer in "Expert" mode. I suspect the
> 'special "udeb" packages' are the key.
The udebs used in an ISO may be copied from it with bsdtar. Templates
files in the udebs can be extracted using apt-extracttemplates and then
processed to obtain the information you want.
--
Brian.
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