> Package: fai > Version: 2.8.4 > Followup-For: Bug #307266 > > Hey, I was just looking at the example file[1] in your package, and it > looks like it used spaces in the debconf info. I have just found out > the hard way that it prefers tabs. I thought this might be related to > your problem, and you might want to put something in the readme file > about it. Copy/paste from a terminal often yields spaces instead of > tabs, which causes unexpected results. >
[...] Are you really sure the space/tab-thing is the cause of your problems? As FAI uses debconf-set-selections, I had a quick look at its code, which uses the following regex to extract questions and answers from its input: my ($owner, $label, $type, $content) = /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)(?:\s(.*))?/; Thus, any number of spaces/tabs > 1 is ok - but you might also want to check your file using "debconf-set-selections -c" to validate your input. On the other hand, xserver-xfree86 might either - not use debconf correctly - not use the values stored in the debconf-database, but rather use some values from a config file, which might have been created using the values in the debconf-db. Regards, Michael
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