Michael Biebl wrote: > Holger Levsen wrote: > > Package: rsyslog-mysql > > Version: 4.2.0-1 > > Severity: serious > > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > > Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o > > > > Hi, > > > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. > > > > From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > > > Setting up rsyslog-mysql (4.2.0-1) ... > > dbconfig-common: writing config to > > /etc/dbconfig-common/rsyslog-mysql.conf > > > > Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/rsyslog-mysql.conf with new > > version > > > > Creating config file /etc/rsyslog.d/mysql.conf with new version > > warning: database package not installed? > > dbconfig-common: rsyslog-mysql configure: aborted. > > dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password > > dpkg: error processing rsyslog-mysql (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > > status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: > > rsyslog-mysql > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Afaics I'm using dbconfig-common as documented, so this issue should imho > be handled there.
One thing you're not doing is "Recommends: mysql-client". But I doubt that
would have helped here.
> I'll leave it to Sean to decide, how dbconfig-common should behave in a
> non-interactive mode (which I guess was used in the piuparts test)
If someone installs a dbconfig-common-using package in non-interactive mode
and doesn't supply any explicit preseeding, then I think we can assume that
they want to answer "no" to "Configure database for ${pkg} with
dbconfig-common?"
The attached (currently untested) patch could be a solution to this.
cheers,
Thijs
--- dpkg/config.orig 2010-01-06 11:16:07.344467011 +0100 +++ dpkg/config 2010-01-06 11:16:10.320693083 +0100 @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ # - multidb support step 1 2) db_get $install_question - if [ "$RET" != "true" ]; then + if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = "noninteractive" || "$RET" != "true" ]; then db_set $dbc_package/internal/skip-preseed true return 0; fi
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