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 --


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