On 26/03/12 19:58, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Yes that could be a problem, but according to the manual of the version > in Squeeze it seems that embedded comments should not have been allowed. > From debconf-set-selections(1): > >> DATA FORMAT >> The data is a series of lines. Lines beginning with a # character are >> comments. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines set the value...
I should be more specific; the meaning of 'embedded comment' could be misinterpreted (and I think I just did). A comment that appears on a line on its own, within the preseed file, is fine in any case: > # Example 1 > # This is a comment > example^Ifoo^Ibar A comment that appears on the end of a line after debconf package/name/value fields, is currently allowed. But in my opinion that was a mistake, undocumented, and has caused at least some issues. In this example, the debconf-set-selections in Squeeze discards the '#' character and rest of the line for both of these settings: > # Example 2 > example^Ifoo^Ibar # This comment should not be here > example^Itype^IPKCS#05 Wheezy has already corrected this (debconf-set-selections will treat the '#' character literally and accept the rest of the line as being part of the value). The version in Wheezy also handles the even less likely scenario of a '#' character immediately following a line continuation. -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
