Hello!
I am trying to create a customized install cd (based on ubuntu-7.10
alternate install cd).
Everything works as desired so far. Just one problem remains: On the
installed box, d-i needs to run "pppoeconfig eth1" before it configures
apt-sources. Without this, apt configuration fails beca
I am sorry for warming up an old thread. But I got somewhat confused
about one detail of this patch to ppp-udeb:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:39:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for convenience. It
> >
On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:04:40 Josef Wolf wrote:
> I am curious whether it is really a good idea to point
> $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME to 127.0.1.1. While this works fine for services
> on the local host, it fails if the address is provided to other hosts.
> For example, if one installs dnsmasq, the $
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:04:40 Josef Wolf wrote:
> > I am curious whether it is really a good idea to point
> > $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME to 127.0.1.1. While this works fine for services
> > on the local host, it fails if the address is pr
Op 22-05-2008 om 16:50 schreef Josef Wolf:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > No. You currently use either ppp-udeb or netcfg, never both. If you use
> > ppp-udeb, the PPPoE interface is expected to be your primary (and in most
> > cases only) network interface.
>
>
On Thursday 22 May 2008 16:50:59 Josef Wolf wrote:
> But wasn't ppp originally intended to connect multiple networks? In
> this (IMHO _very_ common) scenario you would always have at least two
> interfaces: ppp to the provider and a statically configured interface
> to the local network. Further,
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:12:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008 16:50:59 Josef Wolf wrote:
> > But wasn't ppp originally intended to connect multiple networks? In
> > this (IMHO _very_ common) scenario you would always have at least two
> > interfaces: ppp to the provider and
Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to create a customized install cd (based on ubuntu-7.10
> alternate install cd).
>
> Everything works as desired so far. Just one problem remains: On the
> installed box, d-i needs to run "pppoeconfig eth1" before it configures
> apt-sources. Without
On Saturday 24 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> If you need to use pppoe, then you need to load the ppp-udeb module in
> d-i.
A link to the relevant documentation would probably help:
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apds05.html.en
> But, as far as I know currently the script is brok
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:00:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 24 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> > If you need to use pppoe, then you need to load the ppp-udeb module in
> > d-i.
>
> A link to the relevant documentation would probably help:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i3
Josef Wolf wrote:
> d-i anna/choose_modules ppp-udeb
That's not formatted correctly.
d-i anna/choose_modules string ppp-udeb
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:24:06PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > d-i anna/choose_modules ppp-udeb
>
> That's not formatted correctly.
>
> d-i anna/choose_modules string ppp-udeb
Arghs silly me. I have copy+pasted the output from debconf-get-selections.
Thanks for the h
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
>Nov 26 16:51:44 main-menu[2970]: INFO: Menu item 'ppp-udeb' selected
>Nov 26 16:51:44 DEBUG:ppp-udeb: eth0 was not configured. ppp-udeb will
> bring it up
>Nov 26 16:51:44 kernel: [ 415.264747] eth0: setting full-duplex.
>
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
>
>>Nov 26 16:51:44 main-menu[2970]: INFO: Menu item 'ppp-udeb' selected
>>Nov 26 16:51:44 DEBUG:ppp-udeb: eth0 was not configured. ppp-udeb will
>> bring it up
>>Nov 26 16:51:44 kernel: [ 415.264747] eth
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
[ ... ]
> Did you try to manually retry the configuration?
Thanks for your replies and your suggestions, Eddy!
Yes, I tried "udpkg --configure --force-configure ppp-udeb". But the
menus were messed up. Looks like
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Josef Wolf wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> Did you try to manually retry the configuration?
>
> Thanks for your replies and your suggestions, Eddy!
>
> Yes, I tried "udpkg --configure --force-configure ppp-udeb". But the
>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> >> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >> Did you try to manually retry the configuration?
> >
> > Thanks for your replies and your suggestions, Eddy!
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Josef Wolf wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Did you try a regular image without any preseeding? Maybe there's
>> something that breaks ppp-udeb (I am just braindumping,
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Did you try a regular image without any preseeding?
I could now test regular images. And they both (debian-40r1 and
ubuntu-7.10 alternate) work as expected.
> There is the possiblity to set the debugging level of debconf to
> DEBC
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>
>> Did you try a regular image without any preseeding?
>
> I could now test regular images. And they both (debian-40r1 and
> ubuntu-7.10 alternate) work as expected.
Ok
>> There is the possiblity to set the de
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:23:47AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Well, here's the reason why postinst returns error code 30. According to
> > debconf-devel(7), error code 30 from "dh_input high netcfg/get_hostname"
> > means that debconf will not present the question to the
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Change line 172 from ppp-udeb's postinst (should be
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ppp-udeb.postinst after the ppp-udeb udeb has been
> loaded):
> db_input high netcfg/get_hostname
> into
> db_input high netcfg/get_hostname || [ $? -eq 30 ]
I
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:23:47AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Josef Wolf wrote:
>> Oops, apprently ppp-udeb's postinst should handle this return code (30) for
>> preseeding to work correctly (but I'll need a second oppinon from either
>> Joey, Frans or Colin about this, sinc
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Change line 172 from ppp-udeb's postinst (should be
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ppp-udeb.postinst after the ppp-udeb udeb has been
>> loaded):
>> db_input high netcfg/get_hostname
>> into
>> db_input high netcfg/get_hostna
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>
>> Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb.
>> [1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or something
>> like that should be fine
>
> Done.
>
> Now I tried to crea
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb.
> [1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or something
> like that should be fine
Done.
Now I tried to create a fixed udeb. I did the follo
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> >
> >> Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb.
> >> [1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
[ ... ]
> > The next interesting point is that eth0 is not configured at the time
> > ppp-udeb runs. Seems like ppp-udeb is configured before netcfg. Could
>
> This is normal and that is the whole point. To make p
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:23:22PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> >> Change line 172 from ppp-udeb's postinst (should be
> >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ppp-udeb.postinst after the ppp-udeb udeb has been
> >> loaded):
> >>db_input
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> I am still somewhat confused. Is ppp-udeb meant to completely replace
> netcfg?
Let's reward your persistence with some information.
Both ppp-udeb and netcfg have "Provides: configured-network" in their
package info. Some other packages depend o
On Friday 30 November 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> > Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against
> > ppp-udeb. [1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or
> > something like that should be fine
>
> Don
Op 09-12-2007 om 22:07 schreef Frans Pop:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > I am still somewhat confused. Is ppp-udeb meant to completely replace
> > netcfg?
>
> Let's reward your persistence with some information.
>
> Both ppp-udeb and netcfg have "Provides: configured-netwo
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> > > Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against
> > > ppp-udeb. [1] "preseeding the host name does not w
On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Are you sure that you submitted a Bug report for it? I cannot find any
> > mention of it on the ppp BTS page. If you did, what's the bug number?
>
> I bet I've submitted it to the wrong BT
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > I am still somewhat confused. Is ppp-udeb meant to completely replace
> > netcfg?
>
> Let's reward your persistence with some information.
Thanks for the great explanation, Frans!
>
On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote:
> IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for convenience. It
> saves me some typing, that's all. In contrast, the setting in /etc/hosts
> is more important since it is needed to make "hostname -d" and
> "hostname -f" work.
Right. I'd forgott
This one time, at band camp, Frans Pop said:
> > > Note also that for normal netcfg, D-I basically works the same way when
> > > dhcp is used: if the domain name is entered manually, it is ignored.
> > > See for example #328646.
> >
> > But isn't this considered to be a bug?
>
> I'm not sure as I'
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:39:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
First of all, I am very sorry for the big delay I have caused in this
topic. I was not aware of your mail and that you are waiting for a
response since I have not read this list for quite a while (I thought
consensus was found since the p
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