[James Valleroy] > I think we can use dpkg-reconfigure without the interactive frontend: > > echo "jwchat jwchat/ApacheServerName string $hostname" | > debconf-set-selections > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg-reconfigure jwchat > > Do you see any issues with this approach?
[Jonas Smedegaard] > Well, if it works then maybe it will keep working. > > I just worry that manpage seems to describe a different intent. If that work, jwchat is broken, as the setting on disk is supposed to override the debconf value and preseeding like that is only supposed to work for the first time installation. In other word, if this work then jwchat is broken and should be changed to make sure it do not work. I even believe such behaviour is RC as it is against Debian policy (10.7.3 Behavior) to behave like this. For configuration changes like the one above, the debconf frontend need to ignore debconf SET calls done by jwchat and provide its own answer (the new hostname) no matter what the package read from disk. I am not aware of anything implementing such feature at the moment, and not quite sure it will work. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss