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Add ability of modifying connection before full installation

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bo0od <at> riseup.net, julien <at> lepiller.eu
Subject: bug#37005: Add ability of modifying connection before full installation
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 20:30:45 +0200

Hello Simon,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi installer team, :-)
>
> Well, the question is: does you think it is doable to add some network
> configuration (if it is not already the case) in the installer?
>
> User could set some IP, DNS, Gateway and friends before or after network
> checking or automatic configuration.

That would be totally doable, we use connman in the installer through
its CLI and it has configuration options along those lines.  Although I
wish we could use guile-netlink instead, but that'd require a
non-trivial rewrite.  I'll have a look later to see if I can add that.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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