On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:08:50AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:00:12AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:50:10 +0200
> > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > The second issue is not really related to this plan, but we really
> > > > want to debconfify the kernel-package kernel scripts, this would mean
> > > > replacing all die and printing to stdout with proper debconf
> > > > messages, and inputs in the same way, and maybe redesigning some. I
> > > > can do this in shell, but never tried the perl solution previously.
> > >
> > > Please do not bloat the postinst code! Separate it into a helper tool
> > > instead!
> >
> > No way, i think you are misunderstanding here. The current code does :
> >
> > print STDERR <<"EOINFOMSG";
> > Using $ramdisk to build the ramdisk.
> > Other suitable ramdisk generating tools : @ramdisklist.
> > Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : $ramdiskorig.
> > EOINFOMSG
> > ;
> >
> > And we will replace it with (shell version given) :
> >
> > db_subst kernel-package/postinst_ramdisk $ramdisk
> > db_subst kernel-package/postinst_ramdisklist $ramdisklist
> > db_subst kernel-package/postinst_ramdiskorig $ramdiskorig
> > db_input high kernel-package/postinst_ramdisk_verbose_output || true
>
> /me looking at Debconf::Client::ConfModule
>
> the above seems as easy as doing (untested):
>
> use Debconf::Client::ConfModule ':all';
> subst('kernel-package/postinst_ramdisk', 'key_ramdisk', $ramdisk);
> ...
> input('high', 'kernel-package/postinst_ramdisk_verbose_output');
> my @ret = go();
> my $answer = get('kernel-package/postinst_ramdisk_verbose_output');
> if ($answer =~ /^yes$/i) {
> ...
> }
>
> I'll look at it further, now.
Indeed, the most difficult part here should be to chose the priorities to ask
questions and such.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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