On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:00:43PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Vogt wrote: > > Ok, stupid me. I had a line likes this in my debian/config: > > "db_input medium shared/ldapns/ldap-server || true" > > So, the question is allways asked. > > I don't see why the question would always be asked. Debconf defaults to > only asking questions if the user has not seen them before. I think the > above should work just fine. Human error (strikes again). You are right, of course. I set my debconf to "Show all old questions again and again" :-) (stupid me).
> > This works, debconf asks for the ldap-server, if libpam-ldap is the first > > package that sets this value and if shared/ldapns/ldap-server is allready > > owned by another package, debconf is quiet. > > That's incorrect, multiple packages can own a value, and multiple owners > may be set by debconf before *any* of the packages is configured. Yup. Very incorrect and very complicated. I removed this crap and it works like a charm. Debconf is realy nice :) > see shy jo bye Michael -- GPG Fingerprint = EA71 B296 4597 4D8B 343E 821E 9624 83E1 5662 C734 /"\ o \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /|\ X AGAINST HTML MAIL >> / \ o
