Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-03 Thread James Addison
On Wed, 3 May 2023 at 04:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > James Addison (2023-05-01): > > On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 17:53, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I do see that guestfs-tools references[1] them, and I suppose other > > downstream software could do as well. But within the installer's > > components,

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2023-05-03): > It's entirely untested for the time being, but I've tested a few things > inside an installer context, checking how hostname behaves when setting > and when getting the hostname (even if I already alluded to it in the > other bug report), and picking one of

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (2023-05-03): > In summary: > - It looks to me the first patch did make sure hostname=foo is still >seen and acted on in userland, using the traditional logic. > - It looks to me tweaking it to unset the hostname if it's set should >

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi James, [ Sorry, insisting on a new bug report lost us a valuable thing: the people you had cc'd initially. Adding them now. ] James Addison (2023-05-01): > On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 17:53, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > And that user mentioned hostname=unassigned-hostname which would be > >

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-01 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 17:53, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > James Addison (2023-05-01): > > I understand that line of thinking, but we note that we have already > > received feedback on Salsa[1] from a user whose Bookworm installation > > workflow has been affected, and confirmed that the reported

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
James Addison (2023-05-01): > I understand that line of thinking, but we note that we have already > received feedback on Salsa[1] from a user whose Bookworm installation > workflow has been affected, and confirmed that the reported problem > exists. And that user mentioned

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-01 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 16:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > James Addison (2023-05-01): > > Conditions: > > > > * Preseed alias 'hostname' configured on the kernel command-line > > * There is a DHCP server on the installation-target's network that will > > provide a hostname > > > > Expected

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi James, And thanks for the report/forward from elsewhere, much appreciated James Addison (2023-05-01): > This bugreport is a subset/related-to bug #1031643, also in preseed. > > When the 'hostname' preseed alias for 'netcfg/get_hostname' is provided to > Bookworm's RC 2 installer as a kernel

Bug#1035349: regression: 'hostname' preseed alias for netcfg/get_hostname takes precedence over DHCP hostname

2023-05-01 Thread James Addison
Source: preseed Version: 1.115 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, This bugreport is a subset/related-to bug #1031643, also in preseed. When the 'hostname' preseed alias for 'netcfg/get_hostname' is provided to Bookworm's RC 2 installer as a kernel command-line argument, the value