On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:47:30PM +0200, Steffen Joeris wrote: > While I try to port the debian-edu installation on etch I have a small > problem. Of course the users want to choose the language and for that we > need localechooser. But we try to avoid more questions than neccessary, > as you might know the advantage of a Debian-Edu/Skolelinux installation > is to have it as easy as possible. For that we are using > DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical as a KERNEL_PARAMS . Well the input priority > for the language is "high" and changing our priority to high would > introduce more questions from other packages, which is not desirable. > So is there a problem with changing the priority to "critical" instead > of "high", I don't see a reason against doing that.
FWIW, I tried the approach of using DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical in Ubuntu and found it to be ultimately doomed. d-i assumes that critical is for automated installs, and I found that when I tried to bump new questions to priority critical that were designed for interactive use I caused preseeded setups to overflow kernel parameter limits. Linux 2.6.9 and above have weaker restrictions on the length of the kernel command line, so maybe this isn't a problem any more, and I don't object to this localechooser change in particular, but from my experience I do think that using DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical might not be the best approach for debian-edu. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]