On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:43:04AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... > > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers > > > > gotten from the user. Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any > > > > questions it needs to. > > > > > > If the Debian designers had this attitude, everything would go into > > > /var/cache: > > > > > > What, you want to run oowriter? Oops, just deleted that from my > > > cache. Downloading openoffice.org-bin.deb from www.debian.org. > > > Please wait. > > > > Worse than that. All configuration files could be stored in /var/cache > > with this logic, since vi can just regenerate this data by getting you to > > type it in again. > > > > As I see it, if debconf is asking you the questions again, *it* is not > > regenerating the data, but *you* are. > > > > I've looked at the contents of /var/cache/debconf on my machine. I > can't make out what it really contains. It certainly doesn't seem to > contain the answers that I gave to configuration questions during > package installation.
$ grep Value: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat are all answers you either gave or debconf gave defaults for (depending on your debconf priority setting). > As I said in a earlier post, if you are concerned that it *does* contain > information that should be checkpointed, you can move it to /etc and > either put a softlink in /var/cache, or edit /etc/debconf.conf to point > to its new location within /etc > > Someone who mistrusts the design of debconf might try renaming > /var/cache/debconf to /var/cache/hide.debconf and see what happens. > Is a new /var/cache/debconf created automatically? You should never remove directories in /var/cache. Files must be regenerated, but directories do not need to be, so something may break if you do. See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]