> On Monday 20 October 2008, Durk Strooisma wrote: >> Splitting up a value is not mentioned here, nor as good place, nor as >> bad place. I guess this should be listed as bad practise as well, to >> prevent this usage. > > It also says: > Put only a single space or tab between type and value: any additional > whitespace will be interpreted as belonging to the value. > > That can be expanded to "any additional whitespace inside the value is > interpreted as belonging to the value.
Yeah, I know and I thought it wouldn't be a problem, because APT doesn't care about lots of whitespace anyway. And as it always worked, except for a few files on amd64 (like 100:1), I didn't realise it could be totally wrong, using line continuation. > Another reason your preseed file is incorrect is that you're missing a > tab or space after "tasksel tasksel/first multiselect". An empty > value is allowed, but you still need the separator between the type > and the value. It may well be that that is the real cause for the > error. Hmm that wasn't careful of me. I fixed it, but it didn't help. Anyhow, it wouldn't have explained why it IS working on i386. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
