Re: OSA and bridge_role=primary on boot

On 04/26/2017 02:05 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Yeah, in Ubuntu we kind of cheat. The installer is using sysconfig
> stuff, but at the end of the install uses chzdev to take a dump of the
> running configuration and store that on disk. This way all installed
> systems only use chzdev/lszdev.
> 
> You can install and use ubuntu package, and chzdev/lszdev configs are
> not conflicting with existing stuff as they simply generate udev rules
> that one places in /etc/udev/rules.d/ dir.
> 
> I was late on many things for stretch =/
> 
> Ideally I was hoping to have full chzdev support in d-i, such that one
> can preseed any devices, with any of the supported args (e.g. to be
> able to install the system with e.g. bridge_role=primary et al)

FWIW, you don't need to hold back on git commits to d-i for chzdev
support even during freeze time. We can also negotiate uploads to
experimental for s390-tools if needed.

Now if something like Viktor's suggestion would've worked, I think we
could've fixed stretch using that as well. But then it's true that
chzdev should be the way forward. And there's too little man power to
just make it happen in Debian right now.[*]

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[*] I hold that Ubuntu could've just made it happen within Debian
without much trouble. Even though I sort of understand the context why
that didn't happen.

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