On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:30:59 +0100 Sam Johnston <s...@samj.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Maybe. I don't use VM so I'm utterly reliant on others for such issues. > > You would likely find they make your life a lot easier (snapshots et > al are incredibly useful for development). Check out VMware's free > server & player products or roll up your sleeves with Xen. Sorry, that just isn't going to happen. There is only so much time. VM is simply not a priority for me. Personally, I doubt that VM would make anything easier and the frustration spent in tackling Xen and getting everything else working again is not something I want to experience. I do more than just Emdebian and free software and I simply cannot accept interruptions to such tasks. Ultimately, I simply don't trust VM to be an accurate representation of installation on a real machine, partially because I've never trusted emulation of any kind. I'll use VM for websites / hosting but not much else. > >> No. I suspect you can only have one 'preseed/early_command' and that > >> it's being overwritten by the grip-config line. > > > > Do you know of any documentation for such a restriction? > > No, but it makes sense for a variable based system. Set the variable > twice and the old value will be overwritten. Pre-seeding and debconf don't necessarily work that way - after all, the keyring does work for other tests outside a VM with the same pre-seeding file. > > One way to test this is to download the current pre-seed file, comment > > out the second early_command and put it onto another website somewhere > > in the /d-i/lenny/ directory then specifying that domain to the > > pre-seeding question. > > I've already done that and I'm pretty sure I've tried exactly this > test (which worked incidentally, except I'm not sure if grip-config > was installed) grip-config is brought in later when preparing the actual installation via a dependency override. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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