Preseed question

[Ruben Vermeersch]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:00 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> (Although this is maybe a question for u-users, I post it here since
> there will be few user who will know this)
> 
> I am trying to setup an unattended install, this all works fine except
> for one thing: preseeding of a certain package, nis, fails.
> 
> On an installed system, debconf-get-selections and
> debconf-get-selections --installer give me:
> 
> d-i nis/domain                      string enterprise
> d-i nis/not-yet-configured          string
> 
> nis nis/domain                      string enterprise
> 
> I have added these to the preseed file, but still d-i asks these
> questions. The nis package is installed via: 
> 
> base-config     base-config/package-selection   string (~n^ubuntu-base$|~n^openssh-server$)|~n^nis$

Though I have no idea whatsoever what this means, why is the closing
bracket before nis? If it's a regex, wouldn't it make more sense to put
it at the end?

2nd disclaimer: I never even looked at debian-installer, but common
sense tells me I would check this twice, given the assymmetry of the
line.

Regards,
Ruben


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