severity 762007 important
tag 762007 +pending
clone 762007 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 src:debian-installer
title -1 debian-installer: Please use "---" not "--" on installer's kernel 
command line
block -1 by 762007
reassign -2 src:debian-cd
title -2 debian-cd: Please use "---" not "--" on installer's kernel command line
block -2 by 762007
reassign -3 src:installation-guide
title -3 installation-guide: Please use "---" not "--" on installer's kernel 
command line
block -3 by 762007
thanks

TL;DR for the above packages: A kernel change broke the use of "--" on
the kernel command line as a separator for d-i user-params purposes
(i.e. the bit which affects the installer but is also propagated to the
installed system). We now support "---" as well and should use that
wherever we currently use "--".

On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 08:48 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I've left a complete install running but I'm pretty confident that it
> will succeed.

It did. So I have pushed the patch to git.

> As well as this fix I think we need to investigate which of these need
> fixing too (i.e. with s/--/---/ in appropriate places):
>       * The pxe/grub etc configs in debian-installer.git
>       * Debian-cd
>       * Installation guide

I've assigned clones of this bug to these.

> I'm sure that list must be incomplete but it was all I could come up
> with. Sadly, as you might imagine, "--" is not terribly amenable to grep
> or codesearch.d.o.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> > 
> > diff --git a/user-params b/user-params
> > index 53677b5..2d41e05 100755
> > --- a/user-params
> > +++ b/user-params
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ for item in $(sed -e 's/[^ =]*="[^"]*[ ][^"]*"//g' \
> >     # Remove trailing '?' for debconf variables set with '?='
> >     var="${var%\?}"
> >  
> > -   if [ "$item" = "--" ]; then
> > +   if [ "$item" = "--" ] || [ "$item" = "---" ]; then
> >             inuser=1
> >             collect=""
> >     elif [ "$inuser" ]; then
> > 
> > Ian.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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