Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:34:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Stephen R Marenka wrote: The problem seems to be that hwclock.sh is a conffile and wants to prompt the user about whether to override the existing file. Unfortunately, we're running in non-interactive mode so the STDIN prompt

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) fails 20 times (because powerpc-utils hasn't configured). Perhaps that is also a

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:02:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:49:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: This was a fresh install on a newly formatted partition. The symptom to this failure shows up when the following repeat (from debootstrap/woody) fails 20 times

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: While working on woody boot-floppies on my oldworld powermac, I noticed that powerpc-utils seems to ignore the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive. It thus fails to configure. This is a required package. How do I figure out

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:25:24PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: While working on woody boot-floppies on my oldworld powermac, I noticed that powerpc-utils seems to ignore the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive. It thus fails

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 09:12:34PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: The problem seems to be that hwclock.sh is a conffile and wants to prompt the user about whether to override the existing file. Unfortunately, we're running in non-interactive mode so the STDIN prompt fails and

Re: powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen R Marenka wrote: The problem seems to be that hwclock.sh is a conffile and wants to prompt the user about whether to override the existing file. Unfortunately, we're running in non-interactive mode so the STDIN prompt fails and powerpc-utils fails to configure. I can configure

powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
While working on woody boot-floppies on my oldworld powermac, I noticed that powerpc-utils seems to ignore the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive. It thus fails to configure. This is a required package. How do I figure out what's at fault and fix it or where should I file a bug? Thanks, Stephen