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Vincent McIntyre

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Nov 5, 2009, 9:50:02 PM11/5/09
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I noticed a small discrepancy in the type for this question.

packages/netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.template says:
Template: netcfg/dhcp_timeout
Type: text
Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
Timeout for trying DHCP
Default: 15

but the documentation[1] says:

# If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for
# it, this might be useful.
#d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60

Is the difference between text and string significant to 'd-i'?
I notice localechooser uses 'Type: string' in some places and
'text' in others.

Cheers
Vince

[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html


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Frans Pop

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Nov 5, 2009, 10:30:02 PM11/5/09
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On Friday 06 November 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> I noticed a small discrepancy in the type for this question.
>
> packages/netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.template says:
> Template: netcfg/dhcp_timeout
> Type: text
> Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
> Timeout for trying DHCP
> Default: 15
>
> but the documentation[1] says:
>
> # If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting
> for # it, this might be useful.
> #d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60
>
> Is the difference between text and string significant to 'd-i'?
> I notice localechooser uses 'Type: string' in some places and
> 'text' in others.

The template should be type string, but apparently cdebconf does not go
crazy over it being incorrect. I've corrected it in SVN. Thanks.

Cheers,
FJP

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