Branden Robinson wrote: > I used to have them. I had to rip them all out when I added the > autodetection code. My testing experience showed me that I couldn't > both do autodetection cleanly and have defaults in the debconf database. I cannot guess why.. > > Here is another one, using the string type: > > > > Users of U.S. English keyboards should generally enter "pc104". > > > > :-) Please select your keyboard model. > > > > Please enter a value for the entry. > > > > A null entry is not permitted. > > > > <proceeds to redislay the whole question> > > As opposed to only part of it? How would I accomplish that without yet > another template? Wouldn't omitting the long description be a frontend > decision? I was not objecting to it redisplaying the question, so much as for it telling me what I should generally enter, and then not making that the default. > Ooh, debian-installer/keymap. That sounds nice. I've seen you > complaining about 1 billion different packages that ask what country > people live in, too. > > You should probably mail debian-devel-announce a heads up to people > regarding what configuration data is available in debian-installer > debconf templates. Once a few people have moved on this (you have my > support, FWIW), you can say its current practice and ram a Policy > proposal through. Perhaps in the release *after* sarge we can get some > stuff nicely centralized. I don't understand what policy (or events post-sarge) have to do with this. If you can make use of the question's answer, I can make it available with a 1 line change to base-config. > And I hope that d-i absolutely, unconditionally, always always always > sets the hostname. Everybody seems to assume it's set, and nobody > *EVER* bothers to do any error handling if it isn't. They're wrong, but > they're also terminally lazy and we'll never get them all fixed. I think we may have finally gotten this right, though it's been a bit of an uphill struggle for me. -- see shy jo
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