[22:09] <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.
[22:42] <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.
[22:46] <hugegreenbug> ok, i'll investigate further
[22:52] <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.
[22:54] <cjwatson> I think that's just plain not implemented
[22:55] <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
[22:57] <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
[22:58] <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*