Oh well, messed up the bug email addresses :/ On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > 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 maintainer scripts for the image package (update-grub > > comes to mind), if they wrote anything at all to the STDout, would > > cause debconf to throw hissy fits, since it was expecting commands on > > STDOUT, not random chatter from the hook scripts. > > > > One solution was to call db_stop before calling the hook > > scripts, and redirecting stdout to stderr in hte invocation of the > > scripts. Unfortunately, this made any scripts that used debconf > > impossible. > > 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 ? > > Another idea would be to have some tag or something to declare if the script > uses debconf or not, and to do the redirection depending on that ? It could be > parsing for something like : > > <comment delimiter> KPKG-TAG: debconf > > (where <comment delimiter> is # for shell scripts, obviously). > > This would allow for the most flexibility, and still work out fine, and > parsing would be a simple grep command, so rather cheap (if grep > KPKG-TAG.*debconf; then debconf stuff; else non-debconf stuff; fi) > > Oh and BTW, 10.023 did not fix the mkvmlinuz problem, not sure if you saw me > reopening the bug reports. I will try to investigate this on tuesday, altough > i am really lost about this and help will be welcomed. > > For powerpc users, a workaround is to remove the debconf stuff by hand. There > are two scripts : > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz and /etc/kernel/prerm.d/mkvmlinuz > > And the best way is to replace the lines : > > . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > > db_get mkvmlinuz/bootloaders > bootloader="$RET" > > by : > > bootloader=<your_choice> > > Where <your_choice> is yaboot on pmac and rs6k, and mkvmlinuz otherwise. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > >
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