Robert Luberda wrote: > It would be nice if it would be possible to check from maintainer > scripts if debconf is running interactively or not. I would use such a > feature to fix #645240 (run some command in background for interactive > use or spawn it in foreground/don't run at all for noninteractive). > > I tried using the 'seen' flag, but I found it unreliable due to > DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN.
I think one way to accomplish what you want to do is to have the value
be true in the template, and then:
if ! db_input foo/bar; then
not_seen=1
fi
db_go
db_get foo/bar
if [ "$not_seen" ] || [ "$RET" = false ]; then
foreground=1
fi
It does prevent preseeding of the question, but preseeding may not
matter.
> I've also found debconf's VISIBLE command, but it is not documented, and
> seems to always return 'true' regardless of the frontend.
It's deprecated and does nothing but check the seen flag.
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