Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-25 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Sa, 25. Sep 2004, 18:57:59 +0200 schrieb Jö Fahlke: > I'll try to prepare a patch doing just that. Here it is. It is a simple s,debconf/frontend,DEBIAN_FRONTEND, on installer/doc/manual/en/boot-installer/parameters.xml. All other occurences either turn out to be something like /usr/lib/debcon

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-25 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Do, 23. Sep 2004, 17:28:34 +0200 schrieb Joey Hess: > I don't feel comfortable applying this because it breaks anything that > currently uses DEBIAN_FRONTEND. I thought about adding > || [ -z "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ] > but there are apparently some scripts in rootskel for s390 that export A quick g

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Jö Fahlke wrote: > Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > > debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just > > debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems > > a bit weird since it hasn't in fact been shown to the user. > > Ok, h

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:02:59PM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote: > Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > > debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just > > debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems > > a bit weird since it hasn't

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just > debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems > a bit weird since it hasn't in fact been shown to the user. Ok, here is a patch doing just tha

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just > debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems > a bit weird since it hasn't in fact been shown to the user. packages/rootskel/src/sbin/env2deb

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote: > Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 18:59:02 +0200 schrieb Jö Fahlke: > > My plan is to not automagically set any variables if the corresponding > > debconf option is set in the database. Since these variables are set > > from scripts in run-parts-styl

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 18:59:02 +0200 schrieb Jö Fahlke: > My plan is to not automagically set any variables if the corresponding > debconf option is set in the database. Since these variables are set > from scripts in run-parts-style directories it's probably easiest to > use a seperate skript whic

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-22 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Di, 21. Sep 2004, 22:18:51 +0200 schrieb Geert Stappers: > + - debconf/frontend as documented, DEBIAN_FRONTEND is a workaround If nobody opposes I will start to work on this. My plan is to not automagically set any variables if the corresponding debconf option is set in the database. Si

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-21 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Geert Stappers] > > > The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= > > > but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 > > > > > > Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. > > > >

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-21 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Geert Stappers] > > The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= > > but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 > > > > Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. > > I prefer DEBIAN_FRONTEND because it is the same as the parameter used > on

Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Geert Stappers] > The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= > but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 > > Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. I prefer DEBIAN_FRONTEND because it is the same as the parameter used on the shell command line, and the traditional

debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2004-09-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Hello Dist, The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. Was there a transistion from one to the other bootparameter? (and had I the bad luck to encounter it? ;-) What should be done