Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:02:59PM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote:
> Am Mi, 22. Sep 2004, 21:49:30 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > debconf/frontend doesn't have a default, so I'd be inclined to just
> > debconf-get it and see if it's non-empty. Testing the 'seen' flag seems
> > a bit weird since it hasn't in fact been shown to the user.
>
> packages/rootskel/src/sbin/env2debconf sets the 'seen' flag for any
> variables it copies from the environment (and thus from the kernels
> command line) to debconfs database.
I realize that; I don't think it's the right semantic to be testing,
though.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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