On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Please use netcfg/enable
Done
> Please change it to be a preseed only template. It avoid useless work
> for translators and also keep the templates smaller since noone is
> going to be asked about it.
And done. Please let me know if I messed anything up!
I also found that certain packages like postgresql really don't like
systems without loopback interfaces and hosts files, so I modified the
patch to write out basic stub files using netcfg_write_common() before
exiting.
Thanks for the fast response!
T
diff -urN netcfg-1.46.orig/debian/netcfg-common.templates
netcfg-1.46.nosvn/debian/netcfg-common.templates
--- netcfg-1.46.orig/debian/netcfg-common.templates 2008-08-09
19:34:13.000000000 +0000
+++ netcfg-1.46.nosvn/debian/netcfg-common.templates 2009-07-25
13:46:17.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Template: netcfg/enable
+Type: boolean
+Default: true
+Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
+ Set to false to disable netcfg entirely via preseed.
+
Template: netcfg/use_dhcp
Type: boolean
Default: true
diff -urN netcfg-1.46.orig/netcfg.c netcfg-1.46.nosvn/netcfg.c
--- netcfg-1.46.orig/netcfg.c 2008-08-09 19:34:15.000000000 +0000
+++ netcfg-1.46.nosvn/netcfg.c 2009-07-25 13:46:17.000000000 +0000
@@ -78,6 +78,19 @@
/* initialize debconf */
client = debconfclient_new();
debconf_capb(client, "backup");
+
+ /* Check to see if netcfg should be run at all */
+ debconf_get(client, "netcfg/enable");
+ if ( strcmp(client->value, "false") == 0 ) {
+ struct in_addr null_ipaddress;
+ char *hostname = NULL;
+
+ null_ipaddress.s_addr = 0;
+ netcfg_get_hostname(client, "netcfg/dhcp_hostname", &hostname, 0);
+
+ netcfg_write_common(null_ipaddress, hostname, NULL);
+ return 0;
+ }
/* always always always default back to DHCP, unless you've specified
* disable_dhcp on the command line. */
