On 10/17/2014 04:34 AM, Bas Wijnen wrote: > So debconf needs to read configuration files, but it doesn't know how to > parse them. So it does the only thing it can: it uses its cache. Which > means that each and every package that uses debconf must make sure that > they read the configuration files and update debconf's cache _before_ > running debconf. And most of them don't do that.
Could you name a few package for which this is the case? Has bugs been opened for them? > The above problems are solved by my plan to create a "static script > library", which is included in config scripts at package build time. > This library would define functions for parsing common config file > formats, and can be included in config scripts with a line similar to > ##DEBHELPER##. This has the benefit of solving the problem, without > causing the problem of adding lots of duplicate code to the soures. Then such a library *must* be marked as essential, and installed by default, otherwise it would break the install workflow. > Oh yes, and I have some code ready for feedback. I haven't written the > script libraries yet (and I want others to write some of them), but I > have written the debhelper module for using them. I have set up a > mini-dinstall repository where you can get the binary and source > packages: > deb [arch=all,amd64] http://wijnen.dtdns.net/archive unstable main > deb-src http://wijnen.dtdns.net/archive unstable main > (Please ignore problems with the keys; I'm still getting it to work > right.) > > The code is derived from dh-autoreconf and it is the first ever perl > program I wrote. So please don't insult me, but also don't hold back > when you see things that need to be improved. :-) > > Thanks, > Bas Ok, you have a repository. But which package should we look into? As for parsing files, I don't think using perl is a great idea. Such configuration files sometimes may be huge. But anyway. I have a list of features that such a library would need to do for .ini files. This would include not only reading and writing to .ini files, but also allow maintenance of them, like for example moving a directive from one section to another (when this happens upstream). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54409d07.4080...@debian.org
