On Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:39, Bill Allombert wrote: > What if the question, while being priority high, does have a reasonable > default ? Gratuituous high-priority questions is a major issue for any > attempt to perform test upgrade between release. > > Since there can be only one webserver installed That's wrong and thus the rest of the message is wrong too.
Try apt-get install apache apache2 lighttpd boa to get a bunch of www servers installed :) > there is a reasonable > default: the webserver which is installed. > > The user do not know they need to install a webserver prior > seeing the debconf question, so they should be given a chance to > complete the install and then install the webserver they specified, > else the debconf question is useless. Alternatively, if you assume the > user will not actually install the webserver he specified, then the > debconf question is still useless. Well, it may be the most useless question out there but people have been using the package successfully for several years already :) Moodle's target users (system administrators willing to run Moodle as a web application) know perfectly what server are they using. > If you really have to fail if the webserver is not configured before the > package you should at least give a clear notice explaining the situation > and how to fix it, not just > ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/apache/conf.d/moodle' to > `/etc/moodle/apache.conf': No such file or directory dpkg: error > processing Yeah, I agree on this. Best regards P.S. I'm at aKademy just now, so I'm in "kde-only" mode, I will fix this as soon as I'm back| -- Isaac Clerencia at Warp Networks, http://www.warp.es Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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