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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2006-05-12 17:27:53 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2006-05-12 17:27:53 +0000
commit540d01685710c65f7f75b2d67124d54840bc07ae (patch)
tree5365af9980ab490b1e9701ab3aa957fc1d510103
parent8265cce4e9691c10081fd6f4049bbcaf546aedab (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-540d01685710c65f7f75b2d67124d54840bc07ae.zip
* Document new preseed/run setting.
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog5
-rw-r--r--en/appendix/preseed.xml6
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2d48893c5..d80b3878f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
- -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2006 20:34:58 +0200
+ [ Joey Hess ]
+ * Document new preseed/run setting.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2006 12:20:42 -0500
installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index a7518d65f..d96defe4a 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -1112,6 +1112,12 @@ settings for certain configurations in other files.
# preconfiguration files, includes those files.
#d-i preseed/include_command \
# string echo if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi
+
+# Most flexibly of all, this downloads a program and runs it. The program
+# can use commands such as debconf-set to manupulate the debconf database.
+# Note that if the filenames are relative, they are taken from the same
+# directory as the preconfiguration file that runs them.
+d-i preseed/run string foo.sh
</screen></informalexample>
</sect2>