Your message dated Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:18:23 +0000 with message-id <e1trg3b-0007cx...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#606636: fixed in netcfg 1.99 has caused the Debian Bug report #606636, regarding hostname/domain name preseeding is quite broken to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: netcfg Severity: normal The support for preseeding the hostname and domain name is very broken in netcfg. The debconf questions netcfg/get_hostname and netcfg/get_domain are badly named (should be netcfg/hostname and netcfg/domain). netcfg sets these to values that it finds in dns or dhcp with no regard to any existing preseeded value, so you can't override the dns or dhcp with preseeding, which should be possible for installing on a broken network. The installation manual puts the best face it can on netcfg's behavior with this: # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if values come from dhcp. d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain I think that netcfg's use of these variables needs to be rewritten, to make it a) take care to not trample over existing settings b) if there is no existing value, use dhcp/dns to get a good default c) if the user enters something wrong or goes back, unset the value to avoid a) above preventing b) from working when the question is asked again Since it would change the behavior of the two questions to do this, and require preseeding changes, this would be a good chance to rename them too. -- see shy josignature.asc
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--- Begin Message ---Source: netcfg Source-Version: 1.99 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of netcfg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 606...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> (supplier of updated netcfg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:11:53 +0200 Source: netcfg Binary: netcfg netcfg-static Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.99 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> Description: netcfg - Configure the network (udeb) netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb) Closes: 606636 690330 Changes: netcfg (1.99) unstable; urgency=low . [ Philipp Kern ] * netcfg.c (main): Remove a local definition of hostname. (Closes: #690330) * Override the hostname found via DHCP or DNS with the preseeded value of the new variable netcfg/hostname, if set. Patch by Floris Bos. (Closes: #606636) * Add myself to uploaders. . [ Updated translations ] * Amharic (am.po) by Tegegne Tefera * Asturian (ast.po) by Mikel González * Welsh (cy.po) by Dafydd Tomos * Esperanto (eo.po) by Felipe Castro * Spanish (es.po) by Javier Fernández-Sanguino * Galician (gl.po) by Jorge Barreiro * Kannada (kn.po) by Prabodh * Serbian (sr.po) by Karolina Kalic * Tamil (ta.po) by Dr.T.Vasudevan * Ukrainian (uk.po) by Yuri Chornoivan Checksums-Sha1: 55a47b7cd65096717206b9b39426bb7bc7783350 1518 netcfg_1.99.dsc 98d4e679c9b3480202ee1c127eda776e60e5eab3 748696 netcfg_1.99.tar.gz dca3eb05661026b41de4ef43f2e59bf053a64312 419386 netcfg_1.99_amd64.udeb b6881915852d035e4f58e66d175b72b958d96e85 329518 netcfg-static_1.99_amd64.udeb Checksums-Sha256: ae993da0a66add191dd2f9157fd8b63c2da89b7217b93d65357d304951d75789 1518 netcfg_1.99.dsc e0fdf2fb607ae7b2f7088fef0f25906aa709be01fd264af737e044f24ec14f56 748696 netcfg_1.99.tar.gz d9104607381ee49356dd5e66a9b69abcabd789b3de4c509063f0e426f0788178 419386 netcfg_1.99_amd64.udeb f2b12a51a0074a157686389ea754cb0afc613b77db55943de7ecfe03d0f17cdc 329518 netcfg-static_1.99_amd64.udeb Files: 29a58a7b9975d0dd1d2758cae1b019ee 1518 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.99.dsc 4d42fc6ce25d2d63699ba07c6c6e8e5e 748696 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.99.tar.gz 357b9cd2ab2bb8a0a4212005bc1b5086 419386 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.99_amd64.udeb 0ea55ac1779f938d04b13fc252638841 329518 debian-installer optional netcfg-static_1.99_amd64.udeb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQilP5AAoJEERuJUU10FbsqccH/jasqQWvkAk8OvDScbhtLyB0 da+97levmxSP1qy5H6sIpmDDD5KOpamK/GjY38UeM8/o++fa1EoxPwHc+WG3CMiy hkX7urMRUP9YrwIq5loFcuWpy2Dv2ozldGMgn99dxZleivEjhUDrTLvr6kIl5PqZ sBxfyiQXSpOJTdPMLdET6ji+muLRCtNz5FT8ECtGgW2BJRFT1eCIIQZOtU6N6+g8 ktpdGSaEDiIK+IC3pmnv9D+Qw4MOxljvBEeRheh6nQv6EZdsEzAELj3mr3Jm9VhG RmuU7BxSpFQYLk/iq6YMGZNiRaXKSR6z+iiwJ4yUilUP1zTqFGAA1H62mLc2GM0= =3yDy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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