John Smith wrote: > I see a different key type for some keys when I run > 'debconf-get-selections' or 'debconf-get-selections --installer' > > This afternoon, in an attempt to try to resolve another problem, > I ran 6 (six) installs where I, after each install with different > parameters, ran 'debconf-get-selections' and > 'debconf-get-selections --installer'. As an example of what goes wrong > I picked 1 key out of each dumpfile and report it here. The problem > is of course in the reported difference of the key type: boolean or > string in this case. > > Install# DEBCONF_PRIORITY type of debconf-get-selections command grep > 'only_debian' on output of > install > debconf-get-selection command > > 1 critical manual debconf-get-selections <none> > 1 critical manual debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 2 critical preseeded debconf-get-selections d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 2 critical preseeded debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian string true > 3 high preseeded debconf-get-selections d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 3 high preseeded debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian string true > 4 low manual debconf-get-selections <none> > 4 low manual debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 5 low preseeded debconf-get-selections d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 5 low preseeded debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian string true > 6 medium preseeded debconf-get-selections d-i > grub-installer/only_debian boolean true > 6 medium preseeded debconf-get-selections --installer d-i > grub-installer/only_debian string true
d-i preseeding sets values before their type is known, so it always uses the string type. There's not a bug here that I can see, debconf-get-selectios is just reporting what d-i did. -- see shy jo
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