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Re: Changing debconf frontend from the main menu



tis 2003-03-11 klockan 04.31 skrev Joey Hess:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > When main-menu detects that a package implementing debconf-udeb, it
> > will exit, knowing that init will restart main-menu using
> > /sbin/debian-installer.  We should change rootskel to only set
> > debconf/frontend the first time it is executed (instead of setting
> > DEBIAN_FRONTEND).  This will make sure the new default frontend is
> > used when main-menu is started again after it exited because a new
> > debconf-frontend was selected.

I think a loop in /sbin/debian-installer would be nicer, since we may or
may not want to do other things before starting main-menu...

> Couldn't these udebs set debian/frontend, and then just HUP main-menu?

Isn't it more a case of HUPing debconf?


/M
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