Re: [cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen
> > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations.
> > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go
> > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped.
> > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay?
>
> No, please don't revert.
>
> cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until
> the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is
> indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is
> definitely not. :-)
You are right, I did not remember this point. There seems to be a bug
here, will try to fix it.
Denis
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