Package: debconf Version: 1.5.22 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
Hi, shouldn't command line settings override the environment? Probably not only --frontend vs. DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but for other parameters as well. I just ran into a problem when I wanted to manually reconfigure a package in a pbuilder environment (which had DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive set, but I didn't recognize this at once). Even running dpkg-reconfigure --frontend foobar package just exited with 0. No questions were asked. No way to reconfigure even debconf. Every option given to --frontend was silently overridden by DEBIAN_FRONTEND. These environment variables are also not mentioned in the dpkg-reconfigure manpage, only in debconf(7) which is in a separate package debconf-doc. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.5.22 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.10.0-15 minimal Perl system Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.7.14+b1 APT utility programs Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> (no description available) ii debconf-utils 1.5.22 debconf utilities ii dialog 1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-2 GNOME desktop utilities ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available) pn libqt-perl <none> (no description available) ii libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.17a-2+b1 Perl extension for the GNU Readlin ii perl 5.10.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- debconf information: debconf-apt-progress/title: debconf-apt-progress/info: * debconf/priority: low debconf-apt-progress/preparing: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: * debconf/frontend: Dialog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
