Frank Küster wrote:
> It isn't, or rather Joey has misunderstood me - he probably knows every
> piece of code by heart.
Hardly, and obviously not. I'd forgotten about the seen flag cache used
in making it easier to do scripts that back up. Besides, it's 30kloc.. ;-)
> Seen (after seeing in fact):
Frank Küster wrote:
> It isn't, or rather Joey has misunderstood me - he probably knows every
> piece of code by heart.
Hardly, and obviously not. I'd forgotten about the seen flag cache used
in making it easier to do scripts that back up. Besides, it's 30kloc.. ;-)
> Seen (after seeing in fact):
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> - If I set a debconf question's seen flag to "false" with db_fset, it
>> will still be set to "true" again if the question is then asked to the
>> user - no need to revert manually? I would be very surprised if this
>> wasn't
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
>> Configuration database "frankdb" was not initialized.
>>
>> Probably it would be better if you point me to some documentation so
>> that I don't have to bother the list. There no occurence o
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> - If I set a debconf question's seen flag to "false" with db_fset, it
>> will still be set to "true" again if the question is then asked to the
>> user - no need to revert manually? I would be very surprised if this
>> wasn't
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
>> Configuration database "frankdb" was not initialized.
>>
>> Probably it would be better if you point me to some documentation so
>> that I don't have to bother the list. There no occurence o
Frank Küster wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
> Configuration database "frankdb" was not initialized.
>
> Probably it would be better if you point me to some documentation so
> that I don't have to bother the list. There no occurence of "init" in
> debconf(7), debconf-devel(7) or d
Frank Küster wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
> Configuration database "frankdb" was not initialized.
>
> Probably it would be better if you point me to some documentation so
> that I don't have to bother the list. There no occurence of "init" in
> debconf(7), debconf-devel(7) or d
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[some debconf answers]
thank you.
> Debconf does not understand ~ for home in .debconfrc. Try using
> environment variable expansions: ${HOME}
Oh, thank you. ~ is a sh thing, of course. However, now it says
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
Configura
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[some debconf answers]
thank you.
> Debconf does not understand ~ for home in .debconfrc. Try using
> environment variable expansions: ${HOME}
Oh, thank you. ~ is a sh thing, of course. However, now it says
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debconf-show tetex
Configura
Frank Küster wrote:
> - If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its
> "seen" flag? And if it does, does it take effect immediately (i.e.,
> also for a following db_inut ...), or only in the next run of the
> config file?
No, you would have to use FSET to manipulate a
Frank Küster wrote:
> - If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its
> "seen" flag? And if it does, does it take effect immediately (i.e.,
> also for a following db_inut ...), or only in the next run of the
> config file?
No, you would have to use FSET to manipulate a
Hi,
I read again through debconf's manpages, but couldn't find answers to my
questions. You can prepend a "Where can I find documenation about" to
every question, if you like:
- If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its
"seen" flag? And if it does, does it take effect
Hi,
I read again through debconf's manpages, but couldn't find answers to my
questions. You can prepend a "Where can I find documenation about" to
every question, if you like:
- If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its
"seen" flag? And if it does, does it take effect
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