On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen > > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations. > > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go > > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped. > > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay? > > No, please don't revert. > > cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until > the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is > indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is > definitely not. :-)
I changed my mind again, sorry ;) Cdebconf currently seems to work because most scripts fset seen false, which is obviously a bad thing. When those commands are removed, main menu items can no more be asked again. The behavior you describe only applies within a single script, the database is updated as soon as it finishes. My current plan is to add an undisplayed debconf/showold question and set it to true by default. You can set it to false for non-interactive installations. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
