Your message dated Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#446958: postinst prompts for questions outside of
debconf
has caused the Debian Bug report #446958,
regarding postinst prompts for questions outside of debconf
to be marked as done.
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Package: sendmail
Version: 8.14.1-10
configure () {
local enter;
echo -n "Configure now ? (y/N) ";
read yn;
...
According to policy this is depracated behavior:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt
Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting
should be done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which
conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2
or higher. Prompting the user by other means, such as by hand[8], is now
deprecated.
This behavior prevents me from using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
(debconf.7) to install sendmail on a large number of machines.
Ryan
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sendmailconfig hasn't been run from postinst in a *long* time, but
somehow I missed closing this :(
--
Rick Nelson
* joeyh_ wonders if linux is supposed to lock up when you ask 100
processes to cat the entire cd drive
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