Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:23:47AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:

>> Josef Wolf wrote:
>> Oops, apprently ppp-udeb's postinst should handle this return code (30) for
>> preseeding to work correctly (but I'll need a second oppinon from either
>> Joey, Frans or Colin about this, since I am not sure about preseeding).

> OTOH, debconf-devel(7) says in section "THE POSTINST SCRIPT":
>
> Avoid asking questions in the postinst. Instead, the config script
> should ask questions using debconf, so that preconfiguration will work.
>
> But I am pretty much new to those installer/debconf things. Therefore I
> assume my opinion stated above is based on mis-understandings and is
> very wrong.

Yes, udeb postinsts are different.

>> To test what I'm saying, please try this:

>> 	db_input high netcfg/get_hostname || [ $? -eq 30 ]

Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb.

[1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or something like that should be fine

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