On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:34:17PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:46:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >>>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question >>>> at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ >>> >>>While isinstallable scripts can talk to debconf, they should not ask >>>questions, as main-menu will run the isinstallable script for a given >>>package potentially many times. Also, partman-efi isn't a main-menu >>>item so any isinstallable script added to it will never be run. >> >>Right. Thanks for warning before we spend too much time on that >>option! :-/ >> >>So, back to other options I guess. > >I'm hacking on init.d/efi, and it looks like it might do what we >need. We can remember a decision taken (choose not to do EFI >installation), but we'll need to update either all the places that >currently check if we're an EFI platform or the core >libdebian-installer code to look for a flag file or similar...
I *think* I have a working solution here, testing now. \o/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141001014353.gs12...@einval.com
