Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread Phil Dibowitz
ready generated by my provisioning system). So perhaps it would be useful to have a like netcfg/hostname_priority flag where one can choose a priority order? -- Phil Dibowitz p...@ipom.com Open Source software and tech docsInsanity Palace of Metallica

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-01 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Package: base-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When doing a network-install of a system, if one passes `hostname=foo` on the kernel commandline, the installer will use that to set the hostname of the installed system... EXCEPT if there's reverse-DNS for the IP address that w

Bug#977398: base-installer: kernel selection cannot work with user-configured repos

2020-12-14 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Package: base-installer Severity: normal As it stands today, the installer will always fail to find kernels in private mirrors defined in a preseed. This is true, even if you add keys with `apt-setup/local0/key` and set `debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated` and `debian-installer/allow_unauthen