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Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten



David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com> writes:

> Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote:
> > 
> > On "install base" (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it
> > tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other
> > things.  I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for
> > that...

> That's by design, but I'm happy to change it.  debootstrap considers these
> messages to be warnings, so we were displaying them. 

Ok -- it's a debootstrap bug then, or else debootstrap is complaining
about packages in base which are not as they should be?

> Now those messages will be
> displayed just like the informational messages. 

I'm not sure if that's really the right choice -- shouldn't we get it
fixed in debootstrap instead?

> I considered making the choice
> of behavior conditional on bootargs.quiet.  Another option would be to change
> what debootstrap thinks is a warning.  If either of those sound better, speak
> up.

Fix debootstrap -- we do need some way of stopping for user notice --
e.g., disk full.


-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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