Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] debconf passthrough should work with in-target used like that. Good. Then I guess the patch will work. :) But, discover-pkginstall needs to use the debconf-apt-progress command when it runs aptitude to install packages. Tested fix for discover was just uploaded. :) Happy

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.50 Tags:patch For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. An example is the RAID monitoring and administration tools needed to check and configure a hardware

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: +apt-install discover || true +if [ -x /target/sbin/discover-pkginstall ] ; then + in-target discover-pkginstall +fi I suspect it need more work to get the debconf stuff to work properly from within d-i. debconf passthrough should work with in-target used like

Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)

2010-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in