Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be > > because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable > > debconf now. > That sounds similar to a bug I fixed in 0.9.36. Indeed the version from unstable work

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: > Hrm, I just tested with a description of: > > Description: ${hostname} > ${hostname} long > > The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be > because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable > debconf now. That sounds si

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: [Substitution in long description] > I see nothing wrong with this, it should work. Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm runn

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Perhaps hostname --fqdn is failing? Try DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer Hrm, the hostname command works (as verified by "echo $hostname"). I'll try the debug option as soon as I get home. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: > The templates file says: > > Description: uprecords.cgi has been installed into the webtree > You have installed the uprecords-cgi package. That means that a new CGI > script has been installed, which is now visible to the outside world as > http://${hostname}/cgi-bin/upr

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote: > While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi > so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his > webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently > doesn't work. Addendum: The s