Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mai 2006, Frank Küster wrote: >> > on each upgrade of the tex-common package, i'm being asked the same >> > question over and over again: "Group that should own the TeX font cache"? >> > It seems that the answer is not properly remembered by the configuration. >> >> I've noticed that, too. I thought I had properly catered for the >> renaming: >> >> # The groupname question has been split up, but it need not be shown again >> db_fget tex-common/groupname seen || true >> if [ "$RET" = true ]; then >> db_fset tex-common/groupname_single seen true || true >> db_fset tex-common/groupname_multi seen true || true >> fi >> db_unregister tex-common/groupname || true > > Although we should check here for groupname_singe and _multi, too,
Why should we? There's no point in setting the seen flag of a message to its current setting, is there? We don't set any seen flag to false, nowhere, do we? > We should check before whether this question has been seen or not... > > So it should be > > while true; do > db_fget tex-common/groupname_$groupname_variant seen || true > if [ "$RET" = false ] ; then > db_input $cache_debconf_priority > tex-common/groupname_$groupname_variant || true > db_go || true > fi I guess I'm just blind (frustrated by my measurements going wrong today...), but: How should that have effect? If the question is already seen, it won't be shown again anyway. However, I have some other questions to think about: - will there ever be a wrong entry in groupname, i.e. a non-existent group, from earlier invocations of the script? I guess no, but for upgraders we cannot be sure. Does that need special treatment? - If the answer given the first time is a non-existent group, the loop is executed once more. However, I expected that the question would not be shown again, except when dpkg-reconfigure is used. However, this is not the case: The question is shown over and over again, during a fresh installation, until I enter a new value. Anyway, if it turns out that Ralf's idea can be implemented without side effects, dropping the whole stuff completely would be much nicer. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
