| shtylman | cjwatson: if I wish to preseed packages that I would install during normal system operation (i.e. by apt-get .. etc) ... where would I put the .conf files for the packages? | 15:47 |
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| shtylman | I see information about preseeding during install time, but very little about preseeding things after the fact | 15:48 |
| cjwatson | you mean doing preseeding after you've installed the system? | 16:18 |
| shtylman | cjwatson: yea | 16:38 |
| shtylman | I can do debconf-set-selections and pass a file to it | 16:39 |
| shtylman | would that be the right thing to do? | 16:39 |
| cjwatson | yep, that's exactly right | 16:42 |
| shtylman | kk | 16:42 |
| shtylman | cjwatson: is it possible (in a preseed file) to use string replacing? i.e. when setting up postfix, it asks for the mailname ... by default this is the hostname ... can I tell the preseed to use that an not ask me? or something along those lines? | 17:22 |
| cjwatson | not in general, at least not with post-installation preseeding. you'll just have to generate the preseed file dynamically. | 17:23 |
| cjwatson | in this specific case, 'postfix postfix/mailname seen true' (or whatever the question is called) may help, although it may not. it depends on the package. if the package explicitly does db_fset $whatever false, then preseeding can't help. | 17:24 |
| shtylman | I see... and no way to just use the default value? | 17:24 |
| cjwatson | that's what 'seen true' does, if it's possible. | 17:24 |
| shtylman | ahh k | 17:24 |
| shtylman | I will try thank... thanks :) | 17:24 |
| cjwatson | you could also increase the debconf priority. Surely that question isn't asked at priority critical? | 17:24 |
| shtylman | not sure what that means.... :/ | 17:25 |
| cjwatson | dpkg-reconfigure debconf | 17:25 |
| cjwatson | also man 7 debconf | 17:26 |
| shtylman | k | 17:26 |
| shtylman | when I try seen, it says "cannot find a question for postfix/mailname" ... | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | I didn't know what the question name was | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | that's why I said "or whatever the question is called" | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | it was an example, you were meant to fill in the right name :) | 17:34 |
| shtylman | but postfix/mailname is the right question :) | 17:34 |
| shtylman | at least debconf-show shows it on another machine | 17:34 |
| shtylman | this is before postfix is installed obviously... so I guess it can't do seen cause it doesn't know about the question... ? | 17:35 |
| cjwatson | well, this is unnecessary anyway - postfix/mailname is asked at priority high, so just set your priority to critical and you won't see it. | 17:36 |
| cjwatson | but I think that might technically be a debconf bug | 17:36 |
| shtylman | is it safe to override the priority like that? I suppose if you know you have other config files copied over later.. | 17:37 |
| shtylman | but potentially it leaves gaps in the config no? | 17:37 |
| cjwatson | totally standard | 17:37 |
| cjwatson | lots of people do it | 17:37 |
| shtylman | gotcha | 17:37 |
| superm1 | cjwatson, probably a moot point with the impending switch to grub2 on cds, but why was isolinux/text.cfg renamed to isolinux/txt.cfg? | 17:50 |
| cjwatson | Debian change | 17:53 |
| cjwatson | * Rename syslinux *text.cfg files to *txt.cfg. This is needed because | 17:53 |
| cjwatson | adamdtext.cfg is one character too long which means it was never actually | 17:53 |
| cjwatson | included in the menu for multi-arch images. | 17:53 |
| cjwatson | not worth undoing for Ubuntu even though it doesn't matter for us | 17:53 |
| * cjwatson tries to perform an install entirely blind given that his console doesn't work | 17:56 | |
| cjwatson | I have to say, not very impressed with the ease of use of EFI so far | 17:56 |
| cjwatson | though maybe it's just TianoCore, which is hideously slow | 17:57 |
| superm1 | ah, that makes sense | 18:01 |
| superm1 | i've only tried the tianocore implementation too, and agree it's pretty slow | 18:01 |
| cjwatson | I think it's probably a grub2 problem that means I don't get a framebuffer; vga16fb has ended up loaded here which obviously isn't going to work | 18:03 |
| cjwatson | so I preseeded everything in sight and told it to use network-console, so that I can at least ssh in and investigate | 18:04 |
| CIA-8 | libdebian-installer: cjwatson * r209 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog src/system/subarch-x86-linux.c): archdetect: Add the i386/efi and amd64/efi platforms. | 18:19 |
| CIA-8 | libdebian-installer: cjwatson * r210 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 0.69ubuntu2 | 18:20 |
| CIA-8 | partman-partitioning: cjwatson * r726 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog lib/disk-label.sh): | 18:21 |
| CIA-8 | partman-partitioning: Use the GPT disk label by default on *i386/efi and *amd64/efi | 18:21 |
| CIA-8 | partman-partitioning: subarchitectures. | 18:21 |
| CIA-8 | partman-partitioning: cjwatson * r727 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 74ubuntu2 | 18:22 |
| gnude | hello, following problem: installing ubuntu 10.04 without internet connection. so the normal system comes to harddisk. when i open synaptic i see no more packages, but there are many more on the dvd. i could not add the cd to the system . with ubuntu 8.04 i could install from dvd, then open synaptic and add more softwar from the dvd | 20:36 |
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