Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggest solution, but I may be wrong (doesn't debconf check the seen > flag by itself???) but thedebconf debug shows: > ... > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium tex-common/groupname_multi > debconf (developer): --> 0 question will be asked > debconf (developer): <-- GO > ... > evn after the third try of dpkg-reconfigure tex-common.
That's the point of dpkg-*re*configure: It always shows all questions, regardless of their seen flag. The flag is only honored when invoked by dpkg upon installation/upgrade. > # The groupname question has been split up, but it need not be shown again > db_fget tex-common/groupname seen || true > -if [ "$RET" = true ]; then > +RETA="$RET" > +db_fget tex-common/groupname_single seen || true > +RETB="$RET" > +db_fget tex-common/groupname_multi seen || true > +RETC="$RET" > +if [ "$RETA" = true ] || [ "$RETB" = true ] || [ "$RETC" = true ] ; then > db_fset tex-common/groupname_single seen true || true > db_fset tex-common/groupname_multi seen true || true > fi Hm. If the system was previously autodetected as being single-user, and is now detected as multi-user (or the other way round), doesn't it make sense to show the question again? The new multi-user setup might require a different groupname. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
