On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:05:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:32:01PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > please consider allowing http:// URLs as file name for Driver: File, > > > Readonly: yes databases. This would allow downloading of default > > > values from a http server. > > > > This would be trivial to do with wget and debconf's existing pipe > > driver, if pipe were modified to allow setting outfd to "none" (with the > > obvious semantics, as for infd) so that you didn't have to deal with > > throwing away the useless output. Joey, what do you think? > > Sure, your existing patch for that looked fine.
OK, committed. That should allow you to do something like: wget -O - http://foo/bar/baz | DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK='Pipe{outfd:none}' apt-get upgrade I'll leave the bug open for now though, as I can see how this is a bit suboptimal for regular use. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
