Package: openafs-client Version: 1.2.13-1 Severity: normal
Hi, I was recently working on a system that had its debconf level set to high (I usually use medium). I then noticed that the 'thiscell' debconf question was not asked. I checked, and it indeed is of priority medium. What the question does by default is to use the domain name, which often would not be correct. It certainly was not for the machine that I was using. As there is no reasonable default for this, I think it should be high, as per the recommendations in http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html ************************************************************************************* Priority Description low Very trivial items that have defaults that will work in the vast majority of cases. medium Normal items that have reasonable defaults. high Items that don't have a reasonable default. critical Items that will probably break the system without user intervention. ************************************************************************************* I'm actually a little surprised that putting in the domain name actually works, in the sense that it is accepted by the afs server. Furthermore, I noticed that in the case when the 'thiscell' answer was set by default, running dpkg-reconfigure openafs-client and answering the 'thiscell' question differently only changed the entry in ThisCell. The cell name is also written in CellServDB, but the entry there was not changed. Faheem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages openafs-client depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii openafs-modules- 1.2.11-2+2.4.25-1-386-0 The AFS distributed filesystem- Ke ii openafs-modules- 1.2.13-1 The AFS distributed filesystem- Mo -- debconf information: openafs-client/fakestat: true openafs-client/afsdb: true * openafs-client/run-client: true * openafs-client/dynroot: false openafs-client/crypt: true * openafs-client/thiscell: isis.unc.edu * openafs-client/cachesize: 50000 * openafs-client/cell-info: db0.isis.unc.edu db1.isis.unc.edu db2.isis.unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
