installer doesn't report preseed/late_command error

[Carl Karsten]

alt installer, preseed file, preseed/late_command uses apt-get, which errors with sh: apt-get: not found. Installer should pause and throw an error to the user. instead it just loggs the error in syslog and continues.

(I remember a time when wget was not in the installers environment, and apparently apt-get was, because that fixed it.)

Sep 1 19:38:18 debconf: --> GET preseed/late_command
Sep 1 19:38:18 debconf: <-- 0 cd /tmp;apt-get install wget;wget http://shaz/lat
e_command.sh; chmod u+x late_command.sh; ./late_command.sh
Sep 1 19:38:18 preseed: running preseed command preseed/late_command: cd /tmp;a
pt-get install wget;wget http://shaz/late_command.sh; chmod u+x late_command.sh;
 ./late_command.sh
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: sh: apt-get: not found
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: Connecting to shaz (192.168.1.7:80)
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: ^Mlate_command.sh 0% |
        | 0 --:--:-- ETA
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: ^Mlate_command.sh 100% |***********************
********| 1674 --:--:-- ETA
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: +
Sep 1 19:38:18 log-output: TARGET=/target

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Your shell command is written such that it continues on errors. d-i just executes the whole thing and looks at the final exit status, which in this case is zero.

In order to behave as you requested, put "set -e;" at the start of your command.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

By the way, I am absolutely certain that apt-get has never been in the installer environment. I think you must be confused; perhaps you were running a command in some different context.