On 2008-10-10 16:10 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: debconf > Version: 1.5.22 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure > > Hi, > > shouldn't command line settings override the environment? > Probably not only --frontend vs. DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but for other > parameters as well.
This is the behavior in all programs I've seen so far. > I just ran into a problem when I wanted to manually reconfigure a > package in a pbuilder environment (which had > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive set, but I didn't recognize this at > once). Even running > dpkg-reconfigure --frontend foobar package > just exited with 0. No questions were asked. No way to reconfigure even > debconf. Every option given to --frontend was silently overridden by > DEBIAN_FRONTEND. AOL. I just tried to change /bin/sh to dash in my pbuilder setup and scratched my head why "dpkg-reconfigure dash" would not do anything, even with the --frontend and --priority options. > These environment variables are also not mentioned in the > dpkg-reconfigure manpage, only in debconf(7) which is in a separate > package debconf-doc. And even debconf.7 does not mention that DEBIAN_FRONTEND overrides the --frontend option, at last I found it in the Debian changelog. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org