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Re: Another installation failure report



Hi...
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:38 pm, Martin Sjögren wrote:
>
> There are a few issues with the patch:
> 1. It asks about too many packages. Packages that are already installed
> should definitely not be in the list at all.

It shouldn't prompt for those - see the tests for installed() when building 
the lists?

> 2. We should probably still have a case of packages that always get
> installed. Priority 'required' perhaps?

Yes.

> 3. It didn't install all packages that were marked selected. I haven't
> looked closer at the code so I don't know if this is another issue with
> long strings in cdebconf, or if you simply forgot to do something in
> anna...

Well, that shouldn't be due to my patch - since I didn't change the code that 
deals with the _result_ of the debconf query.

=)
Peter



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