Control: reassign 1016644 debconf Control: retitle 1016644 debconf-set-selections: Please allow to preseed the 'error' type Control: affects 1016644 simple-cdd
On 2022-08-04, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > Lately I tried to preseed a question of the type 'error', and it wasn't > really straightforward. > > Such a question can be seen in the package encfs, at: > https://sources.debian.org/src/encfs/1.9.5-1/debian/encfs.templates > > The template looks like that: > > Template: encfs/security-information > Type: error > _Description: Encfs security information > According to a security audit by Taylor Hornby (Defuse Security), the > current > [...] > > In effect, when the package encfs is installed by the Debian installer, > it displays an error message. It's not really a question, it's simply an > error message. > > I tried to use preseeding to prevent the Debian installer from showing > this message. The tentative preseed line that I applied was: > > encfs encfs/security-information seen true > > However, this leads to a build failure in live-build-config: > > $ ./build.sh --verbose --installer --variant netinst > [...] > 2022-08-04 10:05:37,846 DEBUG Checking configuration... > error: Cannot find a question for encfs/security-information > 2022-08-04 10:05:38,016 ERROR preseed file invalid: > <<LBDIR>>/simple-cdd/profiles/default.preseed Where does this build.sh script come from? What is it calling? Not sure how "live-build-config" is involved here. Please share the script so we know what's actually being called. This does sound likely to be simple-cdd calling out to debconf's debconf-set-selections --checkonly ... so reassigning to debconf. > Fortunately, there's a workaround! We have to apply this preseeding instead: > > encfs encfs/security-information boolean true > encfs encfs/security-information seen true At least there's a workaround... > It seems like the first line is enough to trick simple-cdd/debconf into > accepting the second line. This workaround has been use to build the > Kali Linux ISOs: > https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config/-/commit/d9040785 > > Note that the error message above seems to come from debconf, and I > wonder if it can be solved by adding 'error' to the list of known types > here: > https://sources.debian.org/src/debconf/1.5.79/debconf-set-selections/#L154 > > To finish this report, a few URLs showing that other people struggle > with this issue: > - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/encfs/+bug/1672827 > - https://askubuntu.com/q/1401467/424636 Thanks for providing follow-up links... live well, vagrant
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