Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > * debconf/showold: true > > This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it > off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') Are you sure? When I run "dpkg-reconfigure debconf", the third menu screen says: Debconf normally only asks you any given question once. Then it remembers your answer and never asks you that question again. If you prefer, debconf can ask you questions over and over again, each time you upgrade or reinstall a package that asks them. ... Show all old questions again and again? (I think) I do want to see all questions every time I upgrade or re-install something. I just don't want to see things _twice_ each time I upgrade or re-install something. Is that combination not possible? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Daniel B. wrote: > * debconf/showold: true This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') -- see shy jo msg31757/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive > > configuration has prompted twice.) > > What does 'debconf-show debconf' say? # debconf-show debconf * debconf/priority: low * debconf/frontend: Dialog * debconf/showold: true # -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Daniel B. wrote: > All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive > configuration has prompted twice.) What does 'debconf-show debconf' say? -- see shy jo msg31714/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > > > Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? > > Glad to see I wasn't crazy... > > I reported this as a bug some time ago, but the maintainer was never > able to reproduce it. My current working theory is that it is a > result of having both debconf and debconf-tiny packages installed; I Thanks. I'll check if I have both installed. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > All packages, or just some? All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive configuration has prompted twice.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > its Dialog-based menus) twice. All packages, or just some? If the latter, please file bugs against them for misusing debconf. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages with configuration prompt twice
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? Glad to see I wasn't crazy... I reported this as a bug some time ago, but the maintainer was never able to reproduce it. My current working theory is that it is a result of having both debconf and debconf-tiny packages installed; I cannot definitively state that I have ever seen it happen except when installing debconf and removing debconf-tiny in a single apt-get. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
packages with configuration prompt twice
When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or its Dialog-based menus) twice. Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
