Hi, how can I find out in postinst which debconf frontend is active?
In case some particular command fails in postinst, we cannot proceed, and let it "exit 1". However, to inform the user, we display a debconf error, telling him how to fix their system. But if the frontend is noninteractive, the error message will only be sent by e-mail; and if this happens in a chroot where no mail is configured, there's no chance at all to see that. So what we'd like to do is to check whether the frontend is noninteractive, and additionally output to stderr in that case. Therefore, I'm looking for a way to ask debconf about the frontend - is this possible? The alternative would be to check for $DEBIAN_FRONTEND, and if unset parse "debconf-show debconf", but this doesn't look clean. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
