Public bug reported:
It would be great to be able to define hooks directly in the preseed
file:
d-i hook/post-base-installer/0 string "in-target adduser foo"
Something like that.
The use case I have for this is such:
I'm building a preseed file to bootstrap a system up to installing puppet and
running it. The problem is, I need my puppet uid/gid to be consistent every
time. For other users, I just add them to my puppet configuration so when
puppet runs the user is created with the appropriate uid, but in order to do
that I need to install puppet which will install its own user (with its own,
possibly inconsistent) uid.
Therefore I need to create the user/group prior to installing puppet.
When I asked about doing this on #ubuntu-installer, the response I got
from cjwatson (thanks, by the way!) was to use preseed/early_install to
add a hook to /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/ to call "in-target adduser
foo". Since there can only be one early_install, having to add this to a
potentially long and complex chain of commands could get pretty hairy,
so being able to do:
d-i hook/post-base-installer/00_add_foo_user string "in-target adduser
foo"
Would be much much cleaner and also allow for defining multiple hooks,
so if you're generating your preseed file with a script it should make
it easier to manage multiple parts of your script adding their own
hooks.
I'm a pretty new user of preseed, so I can't come up with more use
cases, but I can't imagine it would be that hard to add this
functionality, and I think it could be incredibly useful.
** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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support hooks directly in preseed file
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