Thanks for the reply! I’ll admit, I’m a very new beginner in debian, and my intent was to create a preseeded ISO to install a home server with. Previously, I’ve followed only the guides on the official documentation, but this last time I needed to make some changes and, since time passed, I’ve used the aid of GPT4. Since I sent him my whole preseed file, he was the one to point out “di partman-partitioning/” was wrong in favor of “di partman/“ for that write new label line. And to be completely fair, after a few hours of B&W pages nonstop, I was completely burnt and just asked him to write that mail with the “bug report”.
I apologize for the confusion, and will keep using “di partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true”, regardless of what chatgpt told me. Again, I’m sorry for not going through the updates to check what is what, I thought AI would trustworthy to check for upmost to date information in the countless pages! ________________________________ De: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> Enviado: quarta-feira, abril 9, 2025 12:27 AM Para: João Pedro Gonçalves Lenzi <jpgle...@hotmail.com>; 1102...@bugs.debian.org <1102...@bugs.debian.org> Assunto: Re: Bug#1102415: Documentation error in Debian Installer preseed guide Hi, and thanks for the report. João Pedro Gonçalves Lenzi <jpgle...@hotmail.com> (2025-04-08): > I noticed what looks like an error in the Debian Installer manual for > preseed files, specifically in the "Partitioning" section at: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.en.html > > The guide uses this line: > > d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true > > But based on testing and community recommendations, it seems the correct line > should be: > > d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true Are you sure? Looking in all repositories at once, I'm only finding two hits with the old names: partman-base/debian/changelog 3249: - templates: make partman/confirm_write_new_label translatable kickseed/handlers/clearpart.sh 68: ks_preseed d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true The former only contains a trace in the changelog, as the relevant templates were removed during the reorganization mentioned below. The latter isn't really maintained to the best of my knowledge. You'll find the new names in the relevant components, which are (mainly) partman-partitioning and (tangentially) netboot-assistant. > Not sure if this changed recently or if it's just an old leftover, but > I figured it might be helpful to fix it for others relying on the > documentation for automated installs. I suppose this depends on your definition of “changed recently”. :) That was reorganized in 2007: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-partitioning/-/commit/28a001e094311652aa551b25d3b94c8dcc3c3c9d At the time everything was still in a big svn repository, so you'll see both the addition in debian/partman-partitioning.templates (with the new, current names) and the code change in storage_device/label/do_option switching from partman/* to partman-partitioning/*. This was reflected in the installation guide in 2009: installation-guide (20090901) unstable; urgency=low […] [ Colin Watson ] * partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007. Adjust preseeding documentation to match. See: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/commit/a9eee7c6f96a0f010d88c173945b210c8c60d958 You could add DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer on the kernel command line before starting the installer and inspect what variables are getting queried via the debconf protocol if you really wanted to make sure (you'll find the extra lines in /var/log/syslog in the d-i context, and in /var/log/installer/syslog in the installed system). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
