On 1 March 2011 16:11, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Jonathan Matthews wrote: >> I can't find a way of getting squeeze's (i386) netinst to install >> inside virtualbox without pulling in 3 virtualbox-ose-guest-* >> packages: > > So, these are pulled in by the discover package, particularly by > discover-pkginstall. > > I don't see any way to disable it by preseeding. While > discover uses the discover/install_hw_packages debconf question, > it uses it in a way that ignores preseeding. (This is easily a bug.)
Thanks for this - appreciated. I'll file a bug for this behaviour. Could anyone comment on how a request for a discover blacklist debconf question would be viewed? I'm thinking that it might be productive to be able to communicate "let discover do what it likes, as hwdiscovery is its forte, but I *know* I don't want to install anything matching $REGEX". > The only option I see for now is to use preseed/early_command to > rm /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages For the list archives: this worked under 6.0.0 (tested on i386) but now, post-6.0.1 release, on both 64- and 32-bit 6.0.0 PXE installers (with subsequent packages pulled during the install from a (presumably) updated 6.0.1 mirror) it fails to have the desired affect. It appears that preseed/early_command may be running before the installer has created /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages. I'm not sure if that's a bug. The workaround I'm using successfully at the moment is: d-i preseed/early_command string \ echo -e '#! /bin/sh\necho >/usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages' \ >/usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/19remove-install-hwpackages; \ chmod 755 /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/19remove-install-hwpackages Ugly, but it works. Regards, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik7r+egpko_kkvz4x0lrkx9s+97jrpx49ro6...@mail.gmail.com
