On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 22:27:14 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> Remotely jamming Mönchengladbach BSP :)
>
> This is caused by debconf question in preinst:
>
> ---8<---
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> db_get runit-run/install
> if test "$RET" = false; then
> db_fset runit-run/install seen false
> exit 1
> fi
> ---8<---
>
> If I try to install it in normal system, I'll be prompted to confirm if I
> really want to replace sysvinit, with default answer 'no' ('false'). But if
> I try it in a limited environment like piuparts or pbuilder chroot, debconf
> will always skip the question and continue with the default. So it exits
> with status 1.
>
> I think it's reasonable to fail here. 'False' is a safe default. And it works
> properly in normal systems.
>
A workaround would be to wrap the exit 1 in
if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != noninteractive ]
and let users of the noninteractive frontend keep the pieces. Shouldn't
break normal systems since those would use a real frontend, and should
make piuparts happy.
Cheers,
Julien
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