priority of netcfg/get_domain

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Tue Dec 11 19:24:47 GMT 2007


On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:18:46PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:

Thanks for the fast response, Colin!

> [ ... ]
> Now, this change was made long before Ubiquity existed. Nowadays, d-i is
> under less pressure than before to ask as few questions as possible, and
> to be honest I think we were only really considering DHCP when we made
> that change anyway. Would it address your problem if we set the priority
> back to high just for static network configuration? I think that would
> make sense.

IMHO raising the priority when no DHCP is available and keeping it at
medium when DHCP is available would be a great compromise.

>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343269

Ah.  And I always wondered what the point is to prevent the question and
silently use settings from dhcp when values are preseeded.



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