Hi, I just thought I'd let the other members of this list see why Michael Koehne is so wrong. Therefore, for your viewing enjoyment, I present unmodified debconf running under perl 5.6, done the Debian Way (TM).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>grep daft /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental ./ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>apt-get install perl-5.6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-5.6 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 2875kB of archives. After unpacking 10.3MB will be used. Get:1 http://www.daft.com ./ perl-5.6 5.6.0-0.1 [2875kB] Fetched 2875kB in 8m10s (5868B/s) Selecting previously deselected package perl-5.6. (Reading database ... 87313 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-5.6 (from .../perl-5.6_5.6.0-0.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up perl-5.6 (5.6.0-0.1) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>update-alternatives --config perl There are 2 programs which provide `perl'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- *+ 1 /usr/bin/perl-5.005 2 /usr/bin/perl-5.6 Enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2 Using `/usr/bin/perl-5.6' to provide `perl'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl -v |head -2 This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl -e 'use utf8' || echo no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl -e 'use Debian::DebConf::AutoSelect' || echo no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl -e 'use DebianNet' || echo no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg-reconfigure debconf Configuring Debconf ------------------- Packages that use debconf for configuration share a common look and feel. You can select the type of user interface they use. The slang frontend provides a colorful, full-screen, character based windowing interface, while the text frontend uses a more traditional plain text interface. The editor frontend lets you configure things using your favorite text editor. The noninteractive frontend never asks you any questions notes. The web frontend can be accessed using your favorite browser. s. Slang t. Text e. Editor d. Dialog n. Noninteractive w. Web What interface should be used for configuring packages? [t] Well there you have it folks. Draw your own conclusions; I'm done with this thread. -- see shy jo
