Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:56:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > It seems to be happening an awful lot - I'd suggest including some kind
> > of automated reinstall of all the packages in the testing of the
> > installer (next time I do an install I'll probably give this a whirl).
> I can't imagine how it could happen at all without some great care being
> taken to make debconf behave in a way it truely does not want to, or a
> debconf behavior I am not anticipating. Can you provide an example of a
> debconf database before the upgrade, plus the upgrade with
> DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' ?
I've found some more instances of this problem. I managed to catch a
diff of the config files before and after the upgrade, though I didn't
remember to rerun the upgrade or cache the entire database:
--- config.dat-old 2004-07-23 20:09:40.000000000 +0100
+++ config.dat 2004-07-25 21:43:15.207208392 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
Value: true
Owners: adduser
+Name: alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown
+Template: alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown
+Value: autosave always
+Owners: alsa-base
+Flags: seen
+
Name: anacron/jobs_in_crontab
Template: anacron/jobs_in_crontab
Owners: anacron
@@ -1060,11 +1066,13 @@
Template: debconf/frontend
Value: Dialog
Owners: debconf
+Flags: seen
Name: debconf/priority
Template: debconf/priority
-Value: medium
+Value: low
Owners: d-i, debconf
+Flags: seen
Name: debian-installer/country
Template: debian-installer/country
@@ -1085,6 +1093,7 @@
Template: debsums/apt-autogen
Value: true
Owners: debsums
+Flags: seen
Name: dictionaries-common/default-ispell
Template: dictionaries-common/default-ispell
@@ -1423,6 +1432,7 @@
Template: mozilla/locale_auto
Value: true
Owners: mozilla-browser
+Flags: seen
Name: mozilla/prefs_note
Template: mozilla/prefs_note
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