From codehelp@debian.org Tue Jul 06 11:22:30 2010 Received: from lintel.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.88.22]) by stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW5IJ-0005vB-4q for balloon@balloonboard.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:22:30 +0100 Received: from calvin.TCLDOMAIN.OFFICE (lintel.vm.bytemark.co.uk [80.68.88.22]) (Authenticated sender: neil@technocool.net) by lintel.vm.bytemark.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B34311E15B for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:22:26 +0100 (BST) From: Neil Williams To: balloon@balloonboard.org Message-Id: <20100706112223.397f5e6a.codehelp@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <20100705144442.20874ce9.codehelp@debian.org> References: <20100705144442.20874ce9.codehelp@debian.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__6_Jul_2010_11_22_23_+0100_JElTOmFwYDw=gc6U" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.68.88.22 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: codehelp@debian.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk) Subject: Re: [Balloon] balloon3-config changes X-BeenThere: balloon@balloonboard.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Balloon List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:22:30 -0000 X-Original-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:22:23 +0100 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:22:30 -0000 --Signature=_Tue__6_Jul_2010_11_22_23_+0100_JElTOmFwYDw=gc6U Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:44:42 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > There is no need for these files to be in a package, multistrap and > rootfs-config can create them easily enough. The only remaining issue > is the root password. Necessary changes have now been made in balloonboard SVN trunk so that the new version of balloon3-config (0.6) only contains the chpasswd command via a postinst script. Other versions of balloon3-config have been replaced. The emdebian rootfs multistrap config has also been modified to ensure that new builds pull in the new balloon3-config from lenny-proposed-updates at www.emdebian.org/grip/=20 > I've been trying various methods to get passwd and shadow to accept a > statically defined root password which exists PRIOR to the first time > that shadow is configured. Each time, shadow carefully and studiously > ignores the preset value and either comes up with one of it's own (i.e. > random) or a blank one. No word on that one yet - we may be stuck with chpasswd for a while. =20 > In the meantime, I'm testing changes to the multistrap configs to > support pre-seeding the debconf values for tzdata and putting the > firmware files into the rootfs-config script instead of > balloon3-config. ongoing.... --=20 Neil Williams =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ --Signature=_Tue__6_Jul_2010_11_22_23_+0100_JElTOmFwYDw=gc6U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwzA98ACgkQk7DVr6iX/QJMOgCfbgyEbgSbnN4GkTUikR74fpvz eTYAniJ1cKufIpNsl9cKgL2owV+IhzwB =yohF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__6_Jul_2010_11_22_23_+0100_JElTOmFwYDw=gc6U--