Quoting Paul Wise (2014-03-03 16:31:06) > I noticed on the wiki that the DebianParl blend is working on install > preseeding. I think this is a particularly interesting approach that > might be interesting for more blends to adopt. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianParl#Profiles > https://parl.debian.net/desktop/email/
Thanks for taking an interest in DebianParl - even before I've made much fuzz about it myself. I have now updated those preseeding profiles to reference their source: git://git.debian.org/parl/blends > One thing I noticed is that the firmware-linux package is non-free and > thus should probably not be installed by default without user consent. Better would be a debconf dialogue asking if the user would like to include the formware-linux package - with "No thanks" as default. That would however involve injection of more code into the debian-installer session than can fit in a preseeding file, I suspect. I'd love to learn that I am wrong and it can already be handled by debian-installer - I would also be interested in helping implement it, but I have too much on my plate already currently :-/ What I might do instead is give up on firmware-linux and for more more specific firmware check if any was used during install (e.g. using firmware-* netboot image or feeding firmware udebs from a separate USB stick) and if so install correspondent firmware packages (without asking). > Looking at your preseed/late_command, I noticed that you did something > I wanted to do, marking packages as auto-installed. I filed #730162 > and #739938 about this issue. It appears there is a clear need for > this feature since now a blend is doing it. I wonder where the fix > belongs, perhaps in debootstrap? Ohh - you did something I wanted to do: File appropriate bugreports! My plan is that each tweak has a bugreports tracking its obliteration. You just eased my initiating that plan: Bugreports now added to source. > To work around lack of this feature in d-i we are using this hack > right now for our installs at work. It is more generic but more hacky > than the approach taken by DebianParl. Your approach seem *too* generic for my taste (and possibly the reason bug#730162 was rejected): I don't want *all* apt-install installation flagged as auto-installed (and then partly reverted by fixating another way). I only want supposedly auto-installed packages flagged as such. What I mean by "supposedly?" Possibly all non-leaf packages, but pretty certain it includes all libraries and base packages. Another related but inverse issue, now that we are talking about it, is that of recommended packages "missed": libuuid1 recommends uuid-runtime, and bash recommends bash-completion, neither of which are installed by default. You already filed a bugreport for that one too, Paul? ...and the bash skeleton supports the root user but custom files are installed instead. I intend to work around that e.g. in DebianParl, so expect a bugreport on that when I get around to it (if someone haven't beaten me to it). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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