Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2014-04-17 08:20:22) > [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.
Seems to me that you are basically arguing that debconf in its current form only legally works on initial install and interactively by admins - not as automated reconfiguration by other packages. Is that correctly understood? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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