On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:06:57AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I've reopened this bug because the hack of making main-menu set showold > when reconfiguring is not good enough. Sure, it works for reconfiguring. > But if a menu item fails, or backs up to the menu, the package is left > half-configured. In this case, when it's run again, main-menu does a > udpkg --configure, and does not set showold first. So whatever you did > wrong in answering that menu items's questions can't be undone, since it > doesn't redisplay the questions to you. Potentially kinda bad.. > > Short-term, I think it would be better to back out the patch that closed > this bug, the original behavior that prompted the bug is not as bad as > this. > > Brain-storming other ways to fix it..
For the record, there is also another way explained in #220868. > - Make cdebconf in d-i honor the seen flag if it's set -- but never set > it even when displaying questions. This would let database preseeders > do their thing, while letting us not worry about the status of the > seen flag at all. There could be a special cdebconf/mark_seen that is > forced to false in d-i. Ok, sounds good, I'll commit a fix soon. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
