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/ > 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. > 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.... -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/