Re: Installation manual is too terse

[Darac Marjal]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:01:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

On 9/20/2016 4:42 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:59:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

_B.5.3. Chainloading preconfiguration files_ says in part:
# More flexibly, this runs a shell command and if it outputs
the names of
# preconfiguration files, includes those files.
#d-i preseed/include_command \
#      string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi

How complex can the shell command be?
Where could I find other examples?

If I'm looking in the right place AND interpreting things
correctly
(https://sources.debian.net/src/preseed/1.66/preseed.sh/?hl=76#L76),
the preseed system runs "eval" on your string and then appends
the output to the list of include files.

As this is run in /bin/sh, anything that's valid POSIX shell
should work.

If I interpret things correctly then the below should work.

#d-i preseed/include_command \

# string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then d-i pkgsel/include string pluma gedit; fi I suspect the substring "then d-i pkgsel/include string pluma gedit" might not be syntactically correct but indicates what I would like to do.

I don't think that will work, but the following might:

#d-i preseed/include_command \




--
For more information, please reread.

# string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo "d-i pkgsel/include string pluma gedit" > bob.cfg; echo bob.cfg; fi

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