Hello, Hopefully a netcfg hacker will read this?
Vincent McIntyre, on Tue 27 Sep 2016 10:38:03 +1000, wrote: > For some years the disable_autoconfig preseed has been shown > in the appendix on preseeding. However setting that just sets > use_autoconfig appropriately. Yet use_autoconfig is not even > mentioned in the appendix, ever. > > There might be something I'm missing here, such as disable_autoconfig > is the only thing that works if you pass it on the boot command line. > I might also be misinterpreting 'manual configuration' as meaning > 'set up an "iface ethX inet static" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces'. > > If not, is it time to start deprecating use of disable_auotconfig? > I realise it was needed in the past but the code has been fixed. I don't know. Digging in the git history shows that disable_dhcp (original name for disable_autoconfig) was introduced *after* use_dhcp (original name for use_autoconfig). So it's most probably not a deprecation, and disable_autoconfig would supposed to be used, not use_autoconfig. Joshua, any idea about it? > --- preseed.xml (revision 70296) > +++ preseed.xml (working copy) > @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ > > # If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and > # the static network configuration below. > +#d-i netcfg/use_autoconfig boolean false > + > +# The following also forces manual configuration, but is deprecated > +# for end user preseed files. It will set use_autoconfig to false. > #d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true > > > > Cheers > Vince > -- > -- Samuel #ifndef I_WISH_WORLD_WERE_PERFECT /* It is not :-( All the routers (except for Linux) return only ... -+- linux/net/ipv4/ipip.c -+-
