[15:36] <ev> michaelforrest: what is the DX team doing around the panel for Maverick, that we're blocked on?
[15:37] <michaelforrest> ev: I need to write an email and find out. But I am blocked on doing that by a vague sense of futility.
[15:37] <ev> hahaha
[15:38] <ev> damn, I wanted to continue that conversation
[16:24] <TREllis> hi all, I'm trying to write a short ubiquity/oem-config plugin to hide the user creation page, should it be as simple as http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/444102/ ? or am I missing something?
[16:29] <superm1> i'd think hiding the page would lead to some undefined behavior since no user would be created?
[16:29] <superm1> i'd think you'd be better to preseed the questions from that page
[16:30] <ogra> superm1, would that hide it ?
[16:31] <superm1> if you're running in automatic mode it wouldn't show it if all the questions were answered
[16:31] <ogra> ah, cool
[16:37] <TREllis> hmm, I don't really need the user to be created for this custom build
[16:37] <ogra> you mean you want on user at all ?
[16:38] <TREllis> correct, as this is running after install I don't need it... I have hooks into ldap
[16:38] <TREllis> but when a machine is shipped to a user, I need them to be able to select lang etc, which I why I thought oem-config would be god
[16:38] <TREllis> good*
[16:39] <ogra> i'm not sure it will properly finish but you could just try to delete the plugin
[16:40] <TREllis> ah ok, I was just trying to hide the page by following this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/Plugins
[16:44] <superm1> TREllis, well you just need two bits actually in your plugin to hide other plugins
[16:44] <superm1> NAME = 'test'
[16:44] <superm1> HIDDEN = 'usersetup'
[16:44] <superm1> everything else is unnecessary
[16:45] <superm1> I think everything for usersetup has been pulled into that plugin, so hopefully the install should be able to finish without it there
[16:46] <TREllis> right
[16:46] <TREllis> I'll give that a whirl
[16:46] <TREllis> thanks
[18:09] <ev> cjwatson: do you have any time tomorrow to jump into 1-on-1 and help me talk through this debconf passthrough stuff some more?  I'm inclined to give the separate databases idea a go as it would seemingly let us start running components while formatting, but from listening to the inadvertent recording of our hallway chat at UDS, I take it you think that, well, "here be dragons".
[18:09] <ev> if you're busy tomorrow, perhaps when I get back from holiday?
[18:10] <ev> dragons> with that particular approach, that is
[21:07] <cwj> hello. I am having problems with preseeding d-i with a custom apt source. here's the relevant lines from my preseeding file: http://gist.github.com/424393
[21:07] <cwj> when i include "deb" as the first part of the apt-setup/local0/repository string, i get a malformed sources.list
[21:08] <cwj> malformed in that i have "deb deb" before the url
[21:08] <cwj> if i omit "deb" from the string, the apt source is not added to my sources.list at all
[21:11] <cwj> if anyone can advise me i'd appreciate it
[22:46] <cwj> fyi, this is on hardy. on lucid my source isn't added, whether i have "deb" in the string or not
[23:15] <cjwatson> ev: sure, as long as it doesn't collide with the release meeting
[23:17] <cjwatson> cwj: as of intrepid, it's supposed to strip any leading "deb " - before that, you had to leave out the leading "deb " or it wouldn't work
[23:18] <cjwatson> cwj: odd that it isn't added at all.  can you post your installer syslog?
[23:18] <cjwatson> (I won't look at it right now though, I'm just back from the pub and about to go to bed)
[23:19] <cwj> cjwatson: ok, you're looking for /var/log/installer/syslog ?
[23:19] <cjwatson> yeah
[23:22] <cwj> cjwatson: ok, here's a gist https://gist.github.com/247bb0890b0839e3cd94
[23:23] <cwj> im also trying to figure out which preseed answers i need to add for auto-accepting the partman prompt which confirms writing changes to disk, but the apt-setup stuff is higher priority for me
[23:27] <cjwatson> Jun 3 21:41:57 main-menu[390]: (process:1937): wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden file type or location
[23:27] <cjwatson> I'm guessing that's the problem
[23:27] <cjwatson> fix the repository you're trying to get things from and it should work
[23:29] <cjwatson> you have 'd-i partman/confirm boolean false' - if you want to auto-accept that, you want 'd-i partman/confirm boolean true' instead.  For lucid (and this is harmless for hardy), you might also want 'd-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true' to deal with the case of confirming partitioning when no existing stuff is going to be overwritten
[23:30] <cjwatson> also you have 'd-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean' which should be 'd-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true'
[23:30] <cjwatson> really off to bed now
[23:31] <cwj> ok, thanks for the advice
[23:31] <cwj> pleasant dreams to you :)
[23:49] <cwj> not sure what to check with that 403 error, the source i am trying to preseed in my install works when i add it to sources.list by hand after installation