d-i presseding

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:58:53PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> It would be really, really nice if the d-i preseeding stuff could make
> it into warty, even if its unsupported.  It's the first blocker (the
> other being this odd i915/hwclock bug) that I'm seriously worried about
> here -- I can deal with installing some machines manually but eventually
> this will catch up to me within weeks.  What are the chances of seeing
> d-i preseeding soon?
> 
> If not, I'm most likely going to have to make do with sarge here -- I
> didn't expect that Joey was already working on the problem and had
> something working, serves me right for not paying attention to the -boot
> mailing list.

Matt, Jeff, what do you think? I know roughly what's needed to backport
the preseeding changes: they're a collection of small fixes to debconf
use across a lot of udebs, plus a couple of *-preseed.udeb packages.
They're probably one of the better-tested parts of d-i due to Joey's
funky autotesting framework. What do you think about having me spend a
day or so backporting all this?

I tend to agree with Scott that this will be important for people doing
mass installations of Warty. I know that we have better autoinstallation
support scheduled for Hoary, but I think we will need some support for
it in Warty, even if it's in the sort of assembly-kit form that d-i
preseeding provides.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]