Re: [Balloon] balloon3-config changes

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:44:42 +0100
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> 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....

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