Quoting Anders Jackson (2014-04-17 23:51:30) > 2014-04-17 14:19 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>: >> Quoting Anders Jackson (2014-04-17 13:14:56) >>> Den 17 apr 2014 11:25 skrev "Jonas Smedegaard" <[1]d...@jones.dk>: >>>> Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2014-04-17 08:20:22) >>>>> If that work, jwchat is broken, >> [snip] >>>> Ahh, now I realize what your point is: Declaring and applying must >>>> be done together - so as to distinguish between stale answers >>>> (which must not take precedence over package data) and current >>>> explicitly seeded answers (which should take precedence). >>> >>> So if dpkg-reconfigure is trained to takes precedence as file >>> contents, stdin and/or switches, it would be ok then? >> >> Nope. >> >> Imagine package foo-player with two debconf questions, gtk-theme and >> audio-bus. >> >> 1) install foo-player, and select "green" and "JackD" >> 2) edit /etc/foo-player.cfg to "theme = blue" >> 3) preseed new value for audio-bus "Pulseaudio" >> 4) run "dpkg-reconfigure --favor-answers-over-pkgstate" >> >> Result would be that *both* theme and bus would be changed. > > I was thinking in the way of changing 3 and 4 into this instead. > > dpkg-reconfigure --preseed="foo-player audio-bus string pulseaudio" foo-player > > And if you edit the file without debconf, it will detect that and not > touch it anyway, wouldn't it?
Right, then we fully agree. Sorry I didn't see it af first. - 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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