Package: redmine Version: 3.0~20140825-8~deb8u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have installed several dozens of redmine instances interactively. I use a similar database config for all installations: db type - mysql, access - tcp/ip and the remote host name. All installations work fine. Recently I tried to automate installation using debconf. I set 'redmine/instances/name_ins/default-language' in advance but "apt-get install" or "dpkg-reconfigure" always clean this setting. If configuration procedure performs "rake -s redmine:load_default_data" it always asks for a language setting. It is not a problem for an interactive configuration but automatic installation becomes imposible. I investigated file /var/lib/dpkg/info/redmine.postinst. The variable 'DEFAULT_LANGUAGE' in line 288: 'db_get redmine/instances/${lInstance}/default-language && DEFAULT_LANGUAGE="$RET"' always get an empty value. So line 298: 'bundle exec rake -s redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV=$fRailsEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID="${lInstance}" REDMINE_LANG=$DEFAULT_LANGUAGE || true' always asks for the language setting. I tried to modify /var/lib/dpkg/info/redmine.postinst manually and set the variable 'DEFAULT_LANGUAGE' to a constant. In this case "dpkg-reconfigure" works fine in non-interactive mode as well. Probably problem is in line 93 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/redmine.config: "db_input medium $questionLanguage || true". Because of db_input cannot be performed in non-interactive mode and following do_go cleans appropriate value. There is log: ------------------------------------------------- + db_input medium redmine/instances/default/default-language + _db_cmd INPUT medium redmine/instances/default/default-language + _db_internal_IFS= + IFS= + printf %s\n INPUT medium redmine/instances/default/default-language + IFS= + IFS= read -r _db_internal_line + RET=30 question skipped + return 30 + true --------------------------------------------------- So I suggest to check a return value of do_input and don't perform do_go if the value equivalent to "30" -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages redmine depends on: ii bundler 1.7.4-1 ii dbconfig-common 1.8.47+nmu3+deb8u1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii libjs-scriptaculous 1.9.0-2 ii redmine-mysql 3.0~20140825-8~deb8u3 ii ruby 1:2.1.5+deb8u2 ii ruby-actionpack-action-caching 1.1.1-3 ii ruby-awesome-nested-set 3.0.0-1 ii ruby-coderay 1.1.0-2 ii ruby-i18n 0.6.9-2 ii ruby-jquery-rails 3.1.2-2 ii ruby-mime-types 1.25-2 ii ruby-net-ldap 0.8.0-1 ii ruby-openid 2.5.0debian-1 ii ruby-protected-attributes 1.0.8-2 ii ruby-rack 1.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii ruby-rack-openid 1.4.2-1 ii ruby-rails 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u4 ii ruby-rails-observers 0.1.1-1 ii ruby-redcarpet 3.1.2-1 ii ruby-request-store 1.1.0-1 ii ruby-rmagick 2.13.2-4+b1 ii ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter] 2.1.5-2+deb8u2 Versions of packages redmine recommends: ii libfcgi-ruby1.9.1 0.9.2.1-1 ii ruby-fcgi [libfcgi-ruby1.9.1] 0.9.2.1-1+b3 ii ruby-passenger 4.0.53-1 Versions of packages redmine suggests: pn bzr <none> pn cvs <none> pn darcs <none> ii git 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 pn mercurial <none> pn subversion <none> -- debconf information: redmine/instances/default/mysql/app-pass: (password omitted) redmine/instances/default/app-password-confirm: (password omitted) redmine/instances/default/mysql/admin-pass: (password omitted) redmine/instances/default/pgsql/app-pass: (password omitted) redmine/instances/default/pgsql/admin-pass: (password omitted) redmine/instances/default/password-confirm: (password omitted) * redmine/instances/default/missing-db-package-error: abort * redmine/instances/default/database-type: mysql * redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-reinstall: true * redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-install: true redmine/instances/default/internal/skip-preseed: false * redmine/instances/default/db/app-user: redmine-test redmine/instances/default/pgsql/authmethod-user: password redmine/instances/default/pgsql/no-empty-passwords: redmine/instances/default/db/basepath: * redmine/current-instances: default * redmine/instances/default/remove-error: abort redmine/instances/default/passwords-do-not-match: * redmine/instances/default/db/dbname: redmine-test * redmine/instances/default/upgrade-error: abort * redmine/default-language: ${defaultLocale} * redmine/instances/default/mysql/admin-user: root * redmine/instances/default/remote/newhost: remote-host * redmine/notify-migration: redmine/instances/default/pgsql/manualconf: redmine/instances/default/pgsql/method: unix socket redmine/instances/default/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident * redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-upgrade: true redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-remove: redmine/instances/default/pgsql/changeconf: false * redmine/instances/default/mysql/method: tcp/ip * redmine/instances/default/install-error: abort * redmine/instances/default/remote/port: * redmine/old-instances: redmine/instances/default/purge: false * redmine/instances/default/upgrade-backup: true * redmine/instances/default/default-language: * redmine/instances/default/internal/reconfiguring: false redmine/instances/default/pgsql/admin-user: postgres redmine/missing-redmine-package: * redmine/instances/default/remote/host: remote-host