Hi John, On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:31:19PM -0400, John Bazik wrote:
Seeding debconf to perform an unattended installation of sympa doesn't work because sympa.config ignores the debconf values for: sympa/hostname sympa/listmaster wwsympa/wwsympa_url Some other values are honored, however (sympa/db_* for instance). I understand you are redoing the packaging in sid, but I figured I'd report this anyway, to help others who bump into the issue.
Indeed we have done major repackaging, and believe that issues like this have been fixed in the process.
Leaving this bugreport open for now, until it has been verified that the issue in fact has been fixed in recent releases.
Also, I'd like to urge you to keep in mind folks like me who do unattended installs. The current package forces me to seed debconf to benefit from file permissions set in the postinst and to avoid failure due to a missing database connection. But due to this bug, I still have to modify sympa.conf after installation, and restart the daemons. It's a bit messy.It'd be nice if a fresh, default, unattended install would succeed, but not start the daemons (so I can finish the configuration separately).
We are quite interested in supporting unattended installs using debconf preseeding.
Have you tried the newer packaging in unstable? If so, and you still would want further improvements, then please file a separate bugreport for that separate issue and elaborate there on what you would want implemented.
Thanks a lot for your input! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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