On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:31:01AM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote: > What happens is that debconf asks the questions (not all the questions I > would like), Not asking all the questions sounds like a dpkg-configure priority level.
> the entries in /etc/dbconfig-common/postfix-cluebringer are all > empty strings. Even the first one dbc_install ? If dbc_install is anything but true then most if not all of the subsequent lines will be false. > dbc_generate_include="template:/etc/cluebringer/cluebringer.conf" > dbc_generate_include_perms="660" > dbc_generate_include_owner="root:www-data" > dbc_generate_include_args="-o > template_infile=/usr/share/doc/postfix-cluebringer/templates/cluebringer.conf > -U" OK, so you're using the templates. I've only used the db_get strings but that generally looks like a better way. If I have problems with my postinst, I generally make a verbose postinst script that blurts out everything it is doing etc. It's often found what I'm missing. > these packages don't rely on postfix-cluebringer I would like to be able > to access the debconf/dbconfig-common database entries for > postfix-cluebringer (if it is installed) to optionally configure them > automagically for the user. Is this possible? Did you try making a dummy package and using db_get postfix-cluebringer/myvariable > While debugging the postinst script I also noticed a whole lot of > variables not mentioned in any documentation or example being used by > dbconfig-common and I was wondering if any of these are usable in the > config/postinst script (for forcing debconf to ask specific questions If its not documented then you might, but then the maintainer might change the name/function of that variable too. I'd not depend on these. They're shell scripts, so not exactly great at information hiding. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100411233630.ga10...@enc.com.au
