Moin Marc! Marc Haber schrieb am Dienstag, den 19. Juli 2005: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:26:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Marc Haber schrieb am Montag, den 18. Juli 2005: > > > For a test, I invoked module-assistant auto-build all without root > > > privileges. This resulted in a million of whiptail dialogs being shown > > > > What did the dialog tell you? > > "Warning, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26 seems to contain unconfigured > kernel source!1" (sic!) > "NOTE: You are not root but member of th src group. Mapping the base > working directory to "/usr/src/modass".1" (sic!)
No idea where those .1 come from. > "Installation of the alsa-source source failed." > and so on. The line breaks in the messages are quite unusual as well. Okay, found it. The next version will print only one message. > > > and the system ignoring Ctrl-C. I had to manually kill the process > > > > whiptail ignores Ctrl-C. > > Why can I abort a debconf dialog with Ctrl-C then? Really? I doubt. AFAICS the interactive dialogs of whiptails cannot be aborted this way with debconf, show me _one_ example please. > > > module-assistant should allow a possibility to be easily aborted if > > > called in error. > > > > I still don't get it. Look at the code around the message that you most > > likely mean and tell me what should be different. Please. > > > > printmsg gettext("You are not root and no replacement directory (the > > -u option)\nis specified. Unable to continue.") if !$opt_quiet; > > $columns = $orgcolumns; > > exit 254; > > No, that message is not among the ones displayed. You see, if you don't give exact information, I need to guess which of the 725 messages could you mean. Regards, Eduard. -- General Richard Franklin: A man who won't stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all. -- Quotes from Babylon 5 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]