Re: preseeding choice of init system? - followup info
Kenshi Muto wrote: At 16 Oct 14 19:36:54 GMT, Miles Fidelman wrote: (snip) base-installer/includes and/or base-installer/excludes So, in theory, it looks like there IS a way to preseed things during the early install process - but - bug #668001 in debootstrap (open since 2012) seems to get in the way I just sent a patch to #668001 ;-) Thanks, Cool. But will it get applied (just read the log on #668001)? Sigh Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54410270.8010...@meetinghouse.net
Re: preseeding choice of init system? - followup info
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net (2014-10-17): Kenshi Muto wrote: At 16 Oct 14 19:36:54 GMT, Miles Fidelman wrote: (snip) base-installer/includes and/or base-installer/excludes So, in theory, it looks like there IS a way to preseed things during the early install process - but - bug #668001 in debootstrap (open since 2012) seems to get in the way I just sent a patch to #668001 ;-) Thanks, Cool. But will it get applied (just read the log on #668001)? Sigh You already have a solution, provided in minutes after you asked. Feel free to take your sighing elsewhere, thanks already. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: preseeding choice of init system? - followup info
Since I asked the question, I figure I should follow up with what I found out Cyril Brulebois wrote: Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net (2014-10-16): 1. Where in the installer code does the init system get installed into the target build? As far as I can tell, from somewhat out-of-date documentation (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ - last updated 2010): - the installer runs the base-installer package, which uses debootstrap, to install the base system - including the init system - before the tasksel phase, or installation of additional packages. - In turn, this process uses the hard-coded package priorities, in the repository, to determine which init system to install (which, for jessie, are set to favor systemd) Is this correct? If not, where does the init system get selected and installed? Yes. 2. Assuming the above is correct, is there any way to preseed an alternate choice? - so far, I haven't been able to find any such command that could be put into a preseed file Not sure pkgsel/include will help since some packages will need a removal. preseed/late_command is a generic thing that should work. KiBi. Received this info from another source: - looks like it's debootstrap that installs the init system - it might be possible to preseed things with a combination of: base-installer/includes and/or base-installer/excludes So, in theory, it looks like there IS a way to preseed things during the early install process - but - bug #668001 in debootstrap (open since 2012) seems to get in the way Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54401e56.8060...@meetinghouse.net
Re: preseeding choice of init system? - followup info
At 16 Oct 14 19:36:54 GMT, Miles Fidelman wrote: (snip) base-installer/includes and/or base-installer/excludes So, in theory, it looks like there IS a way to preseed things during the early install process - but - bug #668001 in debootstrap (open since 2012) seems to get in the way I just sent a patch to #668001 ;-) Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto km...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141017032934.442ba4920...@mail.topstudio.co.jp
