Russ Allbery wrote:
> debconf-devel(7):
>
> The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It
> just examines the state of the system, and asks questions, and debconf
> stores the answers to be acted on later by the postinst script.
> Conversely, the postinst script should alm
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:50:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Personally, my first instinct would be to call that an RC bug, but I may
> be missing some case where config needs to modify the file system.
Given that one of the original goals of all this was to allow the config
to be done on a di
Peter Palfrader writes:
> This raises some questions:
> - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files
>(I think the answer here is no)
debconf-devel(7):
The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It
just examines the state of the system, a
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:18:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> This raises some questions:
It might also explain why someone found sbuild-createchroot was
running apt-get upgrade on the host system.
> - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files
>(I think the answer he
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using
> the following configuration setting:
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
You can probably just remove this
> o Is the fact that the config script is run on the host a bug in
> apt-get, dpkg, debconf, or apt-utils?
dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using
the following configuration setting:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-pr
Hi,
part of the debconf stuff in our packages is the config script. This
script's purpose is to ask the sysadmin questions via debconf. The
action should then happen in the postinst maintainer script.
The way our buildds work right now is that the host apt and host dpkg
are asked to install the
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