* Torsten Landschoff <[email protected]> [20090621 14:58]: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:45:40PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > When installing ddclient *without* using the debconf frontend (for
> > example when deploying via FAI) a fresh installation fails:
> Render me confused, how can you install it without debconf when it
> declares a dependency on debconf?
Just without using the interactive debconf frontend. :)
> > # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install ddclient
> Ah, okay, so you are talking about the noninteractive frontend.
Jepp.
> > Running '/var/lib/dpkg/info/ddclient.postinst configure'
> > under 'set -x' outputs the following lines:
> > [...]
> > + read -r _db_internal_line
> > + RET='value set'
> > + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in
> > + return 0
> > + '[' -z ']'
> > + db_input high ddclient/blankhostslist
> > + _db_cmd 'INPUT high' ddclient/blankhostslist
> > + IFS=' '
> > + printf '%s\n' 'INPUT high ddclient/blankhostslist'
> What it is trying to do is to open an "error" template telling the
> user that is has no hosts to configure.
> Without information about which entries you supplied to debconf
> I'll have a hard time to figure this out. It is surely related to
> a new feature in the package configuration scripts that allows pulling
> the hosts to configure from the DynDNS web page.
> Did you update the debconf settings for ddclient 3.8.0-3 or are you using
> the debconf settings which worked with some older version (<= 3.8.0-1)?
It's a completely fresh installation. A basic chroot without any
ddclient configuration/installations so far (neither an package
upgrade nor any existing debconf settings present) and running
'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install ddclient' then.
regards,
-mika-
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