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> On 05/07/2016 11:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > During the Austin summit, I could discuss with Lana about what could be
> > done for the Debian support in the install-guide.
> >
> > Currently, there's these facts:
> > - The Debconf support adds lots of conditionals which aren't easy to
> > support (ie: it makes the individual foo-install.rst more complicated).
> > - Some people would prefer to document the non-interactive mode.
> > - Some people (like me) would still prefer to keep supporting using
> > Debconf during the installation.
> >
> > As a consequence, we believe the most easy way forward is as follow:
> > - Keep Debian support directly in the install-guide.
> > - Remove conditionals for Debian using Debconf in the foo-install.rst
> > files, and document there the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive mode.
> > - Push Debconf support in separate foo-debconf-install.rst files, and
> > use them to generate the install-guide instead of the normal files.
> >
> > This means that effectively, we'd have 2 install-guide for Debian, and
> > not one anymore. Though the non-interactive one would be very close from
> > the Ubuntu one, and wouldn't add much work.
> >
> > The chapter explaining how Debconf works will have to be written in 2
> > versions, one explaining generalities about Debconf, for the
> > Debconf-supporting install-guide, and one explaining how to switch to
> > the non-interactive mode (ie: using DEBIAN_FRONTEND= or doing
> > dpkg-reconfigure debconf).
> >
> > I hope this solution will satisfy everyone.
> >
> > Going forward, to make this happen, I would need that the Debian install
> > guide gets published again. I am currently not sure how to make this
> > happen (ie: what kind of patch is needed?). I have made this patch:
> > https://review.openstack.org/313854 but is this enough to get the guide
> > in docs.openstack.org? Also, what would be needed to get a guide with
> > debiandebconf tag?
> >
> > Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen this patch:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/316325/
> 
> I didn't realize that it was possible to do it this way, and I believe
> that is what the team wanted me to do. Thanks a lot to KATO Tomoyuki for
> proposing this patch, that's just awesome! I'll definitively contribute
> there.
> 
> Once this gets published, IMO, the next thing to do is to modify the
> debconf chapter of the standard install-guide, and explain there how to
> disable Debconf, then we can slowly start converging with the Ubuntu
> stuff. As much as I know there's only 3 places where it will be
> different then: Horizon, Neutron and Nova (as package names and a few
> things differ on these packages).
> 
> Again, thanks KATO Tomoyuki.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)

I think we are ready for Debian Install Guide with/without debconf
from the point of tool-ish view.

> > - Remove conditionals for Debian using Debconf in the foo-install.rst
> > files, and document there the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive mode.

The next step is to remove conditionals.


Regards,
KATO Tomoyuki