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| hugegreenbug | I have a problem with the debconf frontend. I'm tring to use it for a remastered ubuntu and it crashes when trying to install packages. It seems like that is due to the partitioner never being initiated. Is this a known issue/limitation to the debconf frontend? Thanks. | 22:09 |
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| cjwatson | Unlikely actually to have much to do with the debconf frontend itself, which is a pretty generic thing. I suspect something else has gone wrong and the frontend is just the thing that happens to notice and crash. | 22:42 |
| hugegreenbug | ok, i'll investigate further | 22:46 |
| hugegreenbug | well, do you have any idea why the partitioner wouldn't launch from the debconf frontend, but it does from the others? If I check the ubi-partman plugin, I do not see a class for the Debconf frontend, but I do for the others. | 22:52 |
| cjwatson | I think that's just plain not implemented | 22:54 |
| cjwatson | Given that it's not needed for oem-config, which is the only use case where ubiquity's debconf frontend is actually supported | 22:55 |
| hugegreenbug | ok, do how does one partition though the debconf frontend? | 22:55 |
| hugegreenbug | ok | 22:55 |
| hugegreenbug | i see | 22:55 |
| hugegreenbug | thanks | 22:55 |
| cjwatson | It's very likely not possible without significant (weeks at least) development. If you need that maybe you should just use d-i? | 22:55 |
| hugegreenbug | ok | 22:55 |
| cjwatson | e.g. the installer used on Ubuntu server images | 22:55 |
| cjwatson | ubiquity wraps various underlying bits of d-i and presents them in ways more suitable for its context; for the debconf frontend it would probably need to be taught to pass things through in a rather plainer kind of way, since it's unlikely to be possible to do anything much fancier in that frontend than the underlying code offers | 22:57 |
| hugegreenbug | ok, i'll try out d-i | 22:58 |
| cjwatson | FWIW I was initially confused in replying to you since "debconf frontend" is a specific thing that's a part of debconf, whereas you're actually talking about the ubiquity "debconf" frontend which is a different thing and part of ubiquity :-) | 22:58 |
| hugegreenbug | sorry | 22:58 |
| hugegreenbug | i wasn't clear | 22:58 |
| cjwatson | Probably our fault for dodgy naming | 22:58 |
| infinity | cjwatson: Dodgy naming never happens. | 22:58 |
| infinity | *cough*core*cough* | 22:58 |
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