Oh well, messed up the bug email addresses :/

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:19:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >         In the recent 10.X series, kernel package has started
> >  producing image packages whose maintainer scripts use debconf for
> >  user interaction.  Unfortunately, this meant that any hook scripts
> >  called in the maintainer scripts for the image package (update-grub
> >  comes to mind), if they wrote anything at all to the STDout, would
> >  cause debconf to throw hissy fits, since it was expecting commands on
> >  STDOUT, not random chatter from the hook scripts.
> > 
> >         One solution was to call db_stop before calling the hook
> >  scripts, and redirecting stdout to stderr  in hte invocation of the
> >  scripts. Unfortunately, this made any scripts that used debconf
> >  impossible.
> 
> Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any scripts
> writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no ? 
> 
> Another idea would be to have some tag or something to declare if the script
> uses debconf or not, and to do the redirection depending on that ? It could be
> parsing for something like :
> 
> <comment delimiter> KPKG-TAG: debconf
> 
> (where <comment delimiter> is # for shell scripts, obviously).
> 
> This would allow for the most flexibility, and still work out fine, and
> parsing would be a simple grep command, so rather cheap (if grep
> KPKG-TAG.*debconf; then debconf stuff; else non-debconf stuff; fi)
> 
> Oh and BTW, 10.023 did not fix the mkvmlinuz problem, not sure if you saw me
> reopening the bug reports. I will try to investigate this on tuesday, altough
> i am really lost about this and help will be welcomed.
> 
> For powerpc users, a workaround is to remove the debconf stuff by hand. There
> are two scripts : 
> 
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz and /etc/kernel/prerm.d/mkvmlinuz
> 
> And the best way is to replace the lines : 
> 
>   . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> 
>   db_get mkvmlinuz/bootloaders
>   bootloader="$RET"
> 
> by :
> 
>   bootloader=<your_choice>
> 
> Where <your_choice> is yaboot on pmac and rs6k, and mkvmlinuz otherwise.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> 
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