On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:40 -0400, Liam Healy wrote: > To answer what questions I think are being asked of me: > I do not set DEBIAN_FRONTEND explicitly, I don't know if something else > sets it. > I do not think I have apt-utils installed. On my computer, questions > are generally asked while unpacking, I think.
I still don't understand why you weren't informed about the broken settings in 05TeXMF.cnf. What happens, when you first comment the line in 05TeXMF.cnf that definies TEXMFDIST and then call dpkg-reconfigure tex-common; echo $? ? What happens when you do this with DEBIAN_FRONTEND set to noninteractive? In the first case I would expect debconf messages telling you that the configuration is broken plus a '0' printed to stdout. In the second case, I only expect the second thing to happen. This should be '1' and that's the bug that has been fixed now. With this change, tetex-bin wouldn't have tried to configure in the first place. Frank, should some more information be given to the admin in the noninteractive case? tex-common's postinst failing without any indication as to what's wrong doesn't look ideal to me. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
