[Bug 1427252] Re: installer ignores preseeding settings added after --

[Steve Langasek]

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted debian-installer into trusty-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-
installer/20101020ubuntu318.18 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  installer ignores preseeding settings added after --

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in installation-guide package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in installation-guide source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in debian-installer source package in Utopic:
  Triaged
Status in installation-guide source package in Utopic:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When installing from the server iso or mini.iso (any debian-installer,
  really), any preseeding parameters passed after the "--" (two dashes)
  separator on the command line are silently ignored. This slightly
  complicates matters for our users because they need to remember to add
  the settings before the separator, which also has a different
  behavior.

  Parameters added after the separator are meant to be passed on to the
  installed system; so they are especially relevant to server installs
  where one might need to specify a console= to be used for the
  installation as well as on boot of the installed system.

  The kernel now strips anything after "--"; which appears to be what
  causes the problem. Switching to using "---" (three dashes), as
  already done in Debian would fix the issue.

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