Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > OK, let's try this, moving the common show() code into > Debconf::Element::Noninteractive: > > http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debconf.238301.v2.diff > > Tested with debootstrap, same changes. I'll probably put this version > into Ubuntu for now at least. Feel free

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:13:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > That's possible ... suggestions for naming of the common class? I'd been > > thinking the new classes were small enough not to matter too much. > > > > Maybe some magic could go into Debconf::Element::Noninteracti

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > That's possible ... suggestions for naming of the common class? I'd been > thinking the new classes were small enough not to matter too much. > > Maybe some magic could go into Debconf::Element::Noninteractive. Yes, it seems to me most noninteractive elemenets could just der

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:25:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > This patch implements a DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN environment variable > > that debootstrap can set to make the noninteractive frontend behave a > > little differently, without risking breaking other uses of the

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > This patch implements a DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN environment variable > that debootstrap can set to make the noninteractive frontend behave a > little differently, without risking breaking other uses of the > noninteractive frontend. What do you think? This looks reasonabl

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > I've found some more instances of this problem. I managed to catch a > > diff of the config files before and after the upgrade, though I didn't > > remember to rerun the upgrade or cache the entire database: > > No

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't know of a good way to avoid this at this time; debconf's > handling of the seen flag for the noninteractive frontend is basically > correct; debootstrap's use of the noninteractive frontend is correct, > and there's no way d-i ca

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-07-29 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Brown wrote: > I've found some more instances of this problem. I managed to catch a > diff of the config files before and after the upgrade, though I didn't > remember to rerun the upgrade or cache the entire database: Now I understand. This is because debootstrap installs packages using the

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:56:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > It seems to be happening an awful lot - I'd suggest including some kind > > of automated reinstall of all the packages in the testing of the > > installer (next time I do an install I'll probably give this a whirl).

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:56:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I can't imagine how it could happen at all without some great care being > taken to make debconf behave in a way it truely does not want to, or a > debconf behavior I am not anticipating. Can you provide an example of a > debconf databas

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:14:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Mark Brown wrote: > > > > During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear > > > to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run. > > > This means that when the packages

Processed: Re: Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 238301 -1 Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded Bug 238301 cloned as bug 238390. > reassign -1 setserial Bug#238390: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded Bug reassigned from p

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
clone 238301 -1 reassign -1 setserial thanks On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:14:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear > > to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run. > > This means that whe

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:14:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear > > to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run. > > This means that when the packages get upgraded they prompt for >

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Brown wrote: > During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear > to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run. > This means that when the packages get upgraded they prompt for > configuration. Incorrect, they are installed in the normal way but

Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: debian-installer Version: As of 20040412 Severity: normal During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run. This means that when the packages get upgraded they prompt for configuration. While thi