On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It is supposed to be optional. In fact, I cannot see how it could > possibly be failing as you show. The || true is there so no matter what > status code dpkg-preconfigure returns, apt always sees a return code of > zero.
I thought that was pretty odd too. > I have never seen this behavior except for when people have told debconf > to re-show questions, or with a couple of broken packages that force > debconf to redisplay seen questions. In the default configuration, it > works, and has worked for a long time. The two cases that spring to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd told it to use the text interface the first time around.) But I don't recall any cases where I've been asked a question in the preconfiguring stage and it didn't get repeated later. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened, of course, just that I don't remember it. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+
