Russ Allbery wrote:
> debconf-devel(7):
>
> The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It
> just examines the state of the system, and asks questions, and debconf
> stores the answers to be acted on later by the postinst script.
> Conversely, the postinst script should alm
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:50:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Personally, my first instinct would be to call that an RC bug, but I may
> be missing some case where config needs to modify the file system.
Given that one of the original goals of all this was to allow the config
to be done on a di
Peter Palfrader writes:
> This raises some questions:
> - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files
>(I think the answer here is no)
debconf-devel(7):
The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It
just examines the state of the system, a
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:18:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> This raises some questions:
It might also explain why someone found sbuild-createchroot was
running apt-get upgrade on the host system.
> - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files
>(I think the answer he
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using
> the following configuration setting:
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
You can probably just remove this
> o Is the fact that the config script is run on the host a bug in
> apt-get, dpkg, debconf, or apt-utils?
dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using
the following configuration setting:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-pr
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