On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Geert Stappers] > > > The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= > > > but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 > > > > > > Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. > > > > I prefer DEBIAN_FRONTEND because it is the same as the parameter used > > on the shell command line, and the traditional variable used and > > documented all over the place. > > I prefer debconf/frontend because it's easier to type and because I > often try to type DEBCONF_FRONTEND. Also for consistency with most of > the other installer options. :-) > > Anyway, IIRC the reason debconf/frontend does not work is because of the > following in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer.d/S60frontend: > > if [ -z "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ] ; then > for frontend in gtk newt slang text ; do > if [ -e "/usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/$frontend.so" ] ; then > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=$frontend > break > fi > done > fi > export DEBIAN_FRONTEND
Seems like something for the TODO list
--- installer/doc/TODO (revision 21886)
+++ installer/doc/TODO (working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
- gnome-cups-manager fix #271405 (ugly error on desktop install)
(fixed in 0.22-2, not yet in testing)
- support for root on raid
+ - debconf/frontend as documented, DEBIAN_FRONTEND is a workaround
This TODO list can only touch on some larger issues, but there are a great
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> see shy jo
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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