On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 10:45:52 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Ok, then this is probably the root of the problem here.
> Kernel-package does call db_stop, before calling the hooks, since it
> has no guarantee that the hooks will behave properly.
Past tense. This has not bee
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:50:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:34:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The STOP command causes the debconf frontend to shut down; that would
> > certainly break anything trying to talk to debconf after it. May be
> > worth removing that a
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051224 18:30]:
> The fd 3 redirection (and the corresponding redirection of stdout to
> stderr in the shell confmodule) was always acknowledged as a nasty hack
> in debconf. At the time, as I understand it, Joey reckoned it was easier
> to do that than to try to
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:34:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:51:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Notice that the debconf helper sc
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:51:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> > > scripts writing to stdout onl
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:43:19AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> > > scripts writing to stdout onl
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, you are the expert, i said this, because the
> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule script i use in mkvmlinuz and recomended by
> debconf-devel says :
>
> # Redirect standard output to standard error. This prevents common
> # mistakes by mak
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no
> > ?
>
> No, that won't
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no
>
> My impression is that t
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no
> > ?
>
> No, that won't
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any
> scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no
> ?
No, that won't work; if you send something to fd 3, it will go to the
debconf frontend an
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:19:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the recent 10.X series, kernel package has started
> producing image packages whose maintainer scripts use debconf for
> user interaction. Unfortunately, this meant that any hook scripts
> called in the main
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