Greetings, I am packaging Policyd version (codename Cluebringer), this is a complete rewrite of the original Policyd that is packaged in postfix-policyd. I am having some problems testing my packages, it seems that dbconfig-common isn't performing as it should. I have read all the documentation and several other maintainer scripts that use dbconfig-common and I'm still struggling, mainly with the postinst side of things since testing has shown remove and purge to work the prerm/postrm side seems just fine.
What happens is that debconf asks the questions (not all the questions I
would like), but then dbconfig-comon fails to generate the config files
that it should and the entries
in /etc/dbconfig-common/postfix-cluebringer are all empty strings. I
would appreciate some help, and possibly some more information on what
is possible with dbconfig-common and debconf in general.
dbconfig-common problem:
My postfix-cluebringer.config file contains:
#!/bin/sh -e
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
. /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config
dbc_first_version=2.0.10-1
dbc_dbtypes="mysql, pgsql, sqlite"
dbc_authmethod_user="password"
dbc_dbuser="cluebringer"
dbc_dbname="cluebringer"
dbc_remote_questions_default=true
dbc_go postfix-clubringer $@
My postfix-cluebringer.postinst file contains:
#!/bin/sh -e
CONFIG_FILE="/etc/cluebringer/cluebringer.conf"
INIT_FILE="/etc/init.d/postfix-cluebringer"
DAEMON="postfix-cluebringer"
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
. /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postinst
dbc_first_version="2.0.10-1"
dbc_generate_include="template:/etc/cluebringer/cluebringer.conf"
dbc_generate_include_perms="660"
dbc_generate_include_owner="root:www-data"
dbc_generate_include_args="-o
template_infile=/usr/share/doc/postfix-cluebringer/templates/cluebringer.conf
-U"
dbc_go postfix-cluebringer $@
</snip_general stuff>
Request for more information:
There is also a php based webui that I am packaging in the same build
and a patched version on amavisd-new that works with Cluebringer. While
these packages don't rely on postfix-cluebringer I would like to be able
to access the debconf/dbconfig-common database entries for
postfix-cluebringer (if it is installed) to optionally configure them
automagically for the user. Is this possible?
While debugging the postinst script I also noticed a whole lot of
variables not mentioned in any documentation or example being used by
dbconfig-common and I was wondering if any of these are usable in the
config/postinst script (for forcing debconf to ask specific questions
for example). I have emailed the dbconfig-common maintainer, but with no
luck.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice.
--
Nikolai Lusan <[email protected]>
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