Re: Dselect / dpkg interaction.

1995-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Kenny MacDonald writes ("Dselect / dpkg interaction."): > After talking to Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last night about > my understansing of the current way which dselect and dpkg handle the > 'Z' conffiles option, he came up with one possible solution I

Re: Dselect / dpkg interaction.

1995-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Dselect / dpkg interaction. "): > In the case of the startup script running dselect, there is no interactive > shell to take over when "dselect" gets a stop signal. Thus, you'd simply > have to fork a shell at a lower level. That's

Dselect / dpkg interaction.

1995-10-03 Thread Kenny MacDonald
After talking to Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last night about my understansing of the current way which dselect and dpkg handle the 'Z' conffiles option, he came up with one possible solution I thought should be aired. At the moment, dselect sets an environment variable, and dpkg then test

Re: Dselect / dpkg interaction.

1995-10-03 Thread Bruce Perens
In the case of the startup script running dselect, there is no interactive shell to take over when "dselect" gets a stop signal. Thus, you'd simply have to fork a shell at a lower level. Bruce