Package: debian-cdd Severity: normal User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer, Lately I tried to preseed a question of the type 'error', and it wasn't really straightforward. Such a question can be seen in the package encfs, at: https://sources.debian.org/src/encfs/1.9.5-1/debian/encfs.templates The template looks like that: Template: encfs/security-information Type: error _Description: Encfs security information According to a security audit by Taylor Hornby (Defuse Security), the current [...] In effect, when the package encfs is installed by the Debian installer, it displays an error message. It's not really a question, it's simply an error message. I tried to use preseeding to prevent the Debian installer from showing this message. The tentative preseed line that I applied was: encfs encfs/security-information seen true However, this leads to a build failure in live-build-config: $ ./build.sh --verbose --installer --variant netinst [...] 2022-08-04 10:05:37,846 DEBUG Checking configuration... error: Cannot find a question for encfs/security-information 2022-08-04 10:05:38,016 ERROR preseed file invalid: <<LBDIR>>/simple-cdd/profiles/default.preseed Fortunately, there's a workaround! We have to apply this preseeding instead: encfs encfs/security-information boolean true encfs encfs/security-information seen true It seems like the first line is enough to trick simple-cdd/debconf into accepting the second line. This workaround has been use to build the Kali Linux ISOs: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config/-/commit/d9040785 Note that the error message above seems to come from debconf, and I wonder if it can be solved by adding 'error' to the list of known types here: https://sources.debian.org/src/debconf/1.5.79/debconf-set-selections/#L154 To finish this report, a few URLs showing that other people struggle with this issue: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/encfs/+bug/1672827 - https://askubuntu.com/q/1401467/424636 Thanks, Arnaud
