Sorry for two messages - maybe you're right. Your idea would have the definite plus of having translations of our message - which we would not get with an echo command.
Sorry for double post :( Misha misha680 wrote: > > Hi Andreas: > > Yes thank you. Probably good to hold off on upload until this issue is > resolved. > > So, just to check, there is no way to simply tell the user, e.g., via echo > somewhere? > > I believe if we put the note in postinst when it is called with the > configure command-line parameter this would only happen when configuring > the package anyway. > > Just personally, I know I would _hate_ to have to be prompted when I'm > installing a package, especially when it's just to go to some URL. On the > other hand, it _would_ make me pay attention, and otherwise I might just > complain to a mailing list :) > > Thanks > Misha > > p.s. By the way, is Debian Med (or Debian Pure Blends in general) part of > Ubuntu Merge: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging > i.e., do all of our packages eventually end up in Ubuntu by default? That > would be neat :) > > Thx > > > Andreas Tille-5 wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Misha Koshelev wrote: >>> I started writing a nice long detailed email about this but realized >>> my question was rather simple so I'll skip the details... (ok I lied >>> they are below) >>> >>> I realize user _prompting_ in postinst must be done with debconf. >>> >>> What about user _output_? >> >> You can also display a note via debconf and this makes probably sense in >> openmrs. If you ask me the config script is the more apropriate place. >> Rationale: The user will read this note in any case before he tries to >> start working with the programm. However if he installs a bunch of >> packages together with openmrs it makes sense to be interupted (also a >> note needs pressing <Enter>) only in the configure process to enable him >> fetching a cup of coffee after the configure process is finished. If he >> comes back and realises a second interuption in the postinst and then >> has to wait until everything else is finished before he can start >> working this is not nice. >> >> (I assume I should not yet upload the current openmrs package until this >> question is solved, right?) >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. >> >> -- >> http://fam-tille.de >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [email protected] >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/User-output-%28_not_-prompting%29-vs-prompting-in-postinst-scripts-tp29936859p29945320.html Sent from the debian-med mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
