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Re: Installation manual is too terse

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:01:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>On 9/20/2016 4:42 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
>>On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:59:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>_B.5.3. Chainloading preconfiguration files_ says in part:
>>># More flexibly, this runs a shell command and if it outputs
>>>the names of
>>># preconfiguration files, includes those files.
>>>#d-i preseed/include_command \
>>>#      string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi
>>>
>>>How complex can the shell command be?
>>>Where could I find other examples?
>>
>>If I'm looking in the right place AND interpreting things
>>correctly
>>(https://sources.debian.net/src/preseed/1.66/preseed.sh/?hl=76#L76),
>>the preseed system runs "eval" on your string and then appends
>>the output to the list of include files.
>>
>>As this is run in /bin/sh, anything that's valid POSIX shell
>>should work.
>
>If I interpret things correctly then the below should work.
>
>#d-i preseed/include_command \
>#      string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then d-i pkgsel/include 
>string pluma gedit; fi
>
>I suspect the substring "then d-i pkgsel/include string pluma gedit" 
>might not be syntactically correct but indicates what I would like to 
>do.

I don't think that will work, but the following might:

#d-i preseed/include_command \
#      string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo "d-i pkgsel/include 
string pluma gedit" > bob.cfg; echo bob.cfg; fi



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Installation manual is too terse Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-20 11:00 +0200
  Re: Installation manual is too terse Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-09-20 11:50 +0200
    Re: Installation manual is too terse Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-20 13:10 +0200
      Re: Installation manual is too terse Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-09-20 13:20 +0200
        Re: Installation manual is too terse Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-20 13:50 +0200

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