Re: Usage of debconf from init scripts

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de> writes:
> 
> 
> > Why not (pointer to docs would suffice) ?
> 
> Because you cannot assume that there is a tty available when running
> debconf

This is not the point here. Besides the error message db_get works
fine from init scripts. Any other operations are not intended.
The other argument that the debconf configuration doesn't need
to be available local _is_ valid.

Bye
        Racke

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