On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:33:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Denis Barbier wrote: > > 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. > > So I take it that Steinar's CLEARSEEN thing, which would also fix this, > never happened.
Yes, because nobody but me made comments, and I was reluctant to add a new command unless it is really necessary. But now I am not even sure that this fixes the current problem. For instance when a script dies because of 'set -e', this command should be called. > > > - 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. > > I do think this method is simpler.. Agreed, fix committed. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
