"Marcus Möller" wrote: > Hi all. > > I stumbled about the following paragraph in the documenation [1]: > > 'For debconf variables (templates) used in the installer itself, the owner > should be set to “d-i”; to preseed variables used in the installed system, > the name of the package that contains the corresponding debconf template > should be used. Only variables that have their owner set to something other > than “d-i” will be propagated to the debconf database for the installed > system.' > > and wonder what is best practice for variables like: > > debconf/priority select critical > > I want this to be set during installation AND in the installed system, and > noticed that: > > debconf debconf/priority select critical > > seems to apply for both. > > Is that the correct way to go, or should i better define both: > > d-i debconf/priority string critical > debconf debconf/priority select critical
If you define both, probably the second will be used, but this is not a well specified thing. The right thing to do in this case is to use "debconf" as the owner, since you do want it to propigate to the installed system. d-i will see the variable in either case. > [1]: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs03.html.en I've slightly clarified the wording, though this is still a complex area.. -- see shy jo
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