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Re: debconf/frontend versus DEBIAN_FRONTEND



Am Do, 23. Sep 2004, 17:28:34 +0200 schrieb Joey Hess:
> I don't feel comfortable applying this because it breaks anything that
> currently uses DEBIAN_FRONTEND. I thought about adding
> || [ -z "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ]
> but there are apparently some scripts in rootskel for s390 that export

A quick grep for DEBIAN_FRONTEND revealed some more scripts
(packages/partitioner/scripts) relying on DEBIAN_FRONTEND and ignoring
debconf/frontend.

> DEBIAN_FRONTEND; it's not clear to me how cdebconf would behave if
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set to one value and debconf/frontend to another.
> Guess it might be easier to change the docs to only document
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND..

Agreed.

I'll try to prepare a patch doing just that.

Jö.

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