Je Mon, 28 May 2001 14:03:14 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribis: > When possible, packages should use the config script, and only the > config script to interact with the user, since using debconf to ask > questions in other scripts will result in the install pausing in the > middle to ask the question.
So, what's the recommended way to generate output in a postinst that uses debconf? For example: "Starting operation that may take a few minutes..." Just "echo Starting..." interferes with debconf, so I've been doing either 1) db_stop first; or 2) "echo Starting... 1>&2". Or, is there some debconf way to do it? -itai
