On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:19:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > In the recent 10.X series, kernel package has started > producing image packages whose maintainer scripts use debconf for > user interaction. Unfortunately, this meant that any hook scripts > called in the maintainer scripts for the image package (update-grub > comes to mind), if they wrote anything at all to the STDout, would > cause debconf to throw hissy fits, since it was expecting commands on > STDOUT, not random chatter from the hook scripts. > > One solution was to call db_stop before calling the hook > scripts, and redirecting stdout to stderr in hte invocation of the > scripts. Unfortunately, this made any scripts that used debconf > impossible.
Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no ? Another idea would be to have some tag or something to declare if the script uses debconf or not, and to do the redirection depending on that ? It could be parsing for something like : <comment delimiter> KPKG-TAG: debconf (where <comment delimiter> is # for shell scripts, obviously). This would allow for the most flexibility, and still work out fine, and parsing would be a simple grep command, so rather cheap (if grep KPKG-TAG.*debconf; then debconf stuff; else non-debconf stuff; fi) Oh and BTW, 10.023 did not fix the mkvmlinuz problem, not sure if you saw me reopening the bug reports. I will try to investigate this on tuesday, altough i am really lost about this and help will be welcomed. For powerpc users, a workaround is to remove the debconf stuff by hand. There are two scripts : /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz and /etc/kernel/prerm.d/mkvmlinuz And the best way is to replace the lines : . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_get mkvmlinuz/bootloaders bootloader="$RET" by : bootloader=<your_choice> Where <your_choice> is yaboot on pmac and rs6k, and mkvmlinuz otherwise. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
