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Package: ucf
Version: 3.0016
Severity: normal
Dovecot is a package whose postinst does not use debconf directly but
it calls "ucf --three-way ..."
Currently, the --three-way option is not honored at all.
Looking at the processus during the installation, I see:
23784 pts/8 Sl+ 0:14 | \_ aptitude
27025 pts/10 Ss+ 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 65 --configure
hplip-data hplip hpijs linux-image-2.6.29-rc8-amd64 net-tools whois cdbs
libburn4 cdrskin dovecot-common dovecot-imapd git-cola gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11
gnuplot libwbclient0 libsmbclient libsndfile1 libxi6 libxrandr2 linux-libc-dev
nspluginwrapper sndfile-programs texlive-common texlive-base
texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pictures
texlive-pictures-doc mencoder mplayer
28667 pts/10 S+ 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.postinst configure 1:1.1.11-4
28668 pts/10 S+ 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/dovecot/dovecot.conf
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
28694 pts/10 S+ 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash /usr/bin/ucf
/usr/share/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
28723 pts/10 S+ 0:00 | \_ whiptail --backtitle Outil de
[...]
You can see how ucf, called from within debconf, does not have the --three-way
switch anymore.
I did not verify, but I suspect that:
1) ucf calls getopts to manage its options (it needs it to check for
--debconf-ok at least)
getopts (and "eval set -- ...") manage and remove all options from "$@"
2) debconf is not running so it is started
=> debconf restart the script with "$@" options (so --three-way is lost)
3) ucf is run inside debconf without the --three-way option
Regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii coreutils 7.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ucf recommends no packages.
ucf suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* ucf/show_diff:
* ucf/changeprompt_threeway: install_new
ucf/title:
* ucf/changeprompt: install_new
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:02:03 -0500
Source: ucf
Binary: ucf
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.0017
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Description:
ucf - Update Configuration File: preserve user changes to config files.
Closes: 512832
Changes:
ucf (3.0017) unstable; urgency=low
.
* [989de4e]: No longer use a non debconf method to prompt the user
Also, only run bash directly is the script has a terminal backend.
Failing that, if DISPLAY is set, try to start a terminal emulator.
If there is no tty and no DISPLAY, gibber and do nothing.
* [6e5ba1b]: Save and restore command line arguments after parsing
This way, when the script is called again under debconf, the command
line arguments are still around, and have not been eliminated during
parsing. And no, getopt was not to blame, ucf was nuking the
commandline itself.
Bug fix: "ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf
[...]", thanks to Michael Prokop (Closes: #512832).
* [ea1c15d]: Stash any configuration file less than 25KB in size
Also, allow the three way merge options whenever there is a stashed
version of the file, whether or not the package maintainer has
explicitly asked for a three way capability. This way, are closer to
making three way capabilities the default, except for large
configuration files, where large is defined as 25 KB.
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