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Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration

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On 16-12-2020 18:24, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Erik wrote:
>> I am doing an unattended install of Debian Buster with postfix being
>> added using apt-install in the preseed/late_command.
>>
>> Without a postfix preseed definition in my preeseed file, I get the expected
>> question about what kind of mail configuration I would like.
>> When I select "No configuration", installation continues as expected and I
>> end up with a postfix installation without main.cf and without master.cf.
>>
>> But when I preseed postfix with "d-i postfix/main_mailer_type select No
>> configuration"
>> as both debconf-get-selections and
>> https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/buster/amd64-main-full.txt
>> confirm I should do, I get an extra question asking me about the system mail
>> name.
>> Clearly, this question is out of place for a "No configuration" install.
>> And as a result I end up with a main.cf and a master.cf, which contradicts
>> the "No configuration".
>>
>> So something is going wrong. Apparently the preseeded selection for
>> configuration type is accepted, as that question is not asked, but it
>> is not interpreted as "No configuration".
> If you don't want any configuration, you must be supplying
> configuration later on -- so why don't you refrain from
> installing postfix via the preseed, and install it later when
> you are ready to configure it?

Because the configuration is preseeded as well. The installl is entirely 
unattended
and the apt-install is supposed to only install Postfix itself. After 
that, the configuration
will be added automatically too.

Of course I can overwrite the files that get installed, but that's not 
the point here.
The point is that there is a bug somewhere that makes the installer do 
the wrong
thing when the same answer as given manually, is given via preseeding.
The same answer should not lead to different results.

I can deal with this bug, now I know it's there.

Erik

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Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Erik <erik@vanlinsteeict.nl> - 2020-12-16 18:00 +0100
  Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-12-16 18:30 +0100
    Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Erik <erik@vanlinsteeict.nl> - 2020-12-16 19:20 +0100
      Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 00:40 +0100

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