On Friday 02 September 2005 06:36, Christian Perrier wrote: > > The "Config file handling" example config script contains an error: > > > > if [ -e $CONFIGFILE ]; then > > . $CONFIGFILE || true > > > > # Store values from config file into > > # debconf db. > > db_set mypackage/foo FOO > > db_set mypackage/bar BAR > > fi > > Well, doesn't this just put the string FOO in the value for > debconf/foo, and same for BAR?
It doesn't seem to be the intended behaviour. If I correctly understand the example, the idea is to use debconf to update the configuration file (which is a shell script). db_set is used here to seed the questions with the current settings, not a fixed string. -- Jérémy
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