On 16-12-2020 18:24, Dan Ritter wrote:
Erik wrote:
I am doing an unattended install of Debian Buster with postfix being
added using apt-install in the preseed/late_command.
Without a postfix preseed definition in my preeseed file, I get the expected
question about what kind of mail configuration I would like.
When I select "No configuration", installation continues as expected and I
end up with a postfix installation without main.cf and without master.cf.
But when I preseed postfix with "d-i postfix/main_mailer_type select No
configuration"
as both debconf-get-selections and
https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/buster/amd64-main-full.txt
confirm I should do, I get an extra question asking me about the system mail
name.
Clearly, this question is out of place for a "No configuration" install.
And as a result I end up with a main.cf and a master.cf, which contradicts
the "No configuration".
So something is going wrong. Apparently the preseeded selection for
configuration type is accepted, as that question is not asked, but it
is not interpreted as "No configuration".
If you don't want any configuration, you must be supplying
configuration later on -- so why don't you refrain from
installing postfix via the preseed, and install it later when
you are ready to configure it?
Because the configuration is preseeded as well. The installl is entirely
unattended
and the apt-install is supposed to only install Postfix itself. After
that, the configuration
will be added automatically too.
Of course I can overwrite the files that get installed, but that's not
the point here.
The point is that there is a bug somewhere that makes the installer do
the wrong
thing when the same answer as given manually, is given via preseeding.
The same answer should not lead to different results.
I can deal with this bug, now I know it's there.
Erik
