Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:13:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > That's possible ... suggestions for naming of the common class? I'd been
> > thinking the new classes were small enough not to matter too much.
> >
> > Maybe some magic could go into Debconf::Element::Noninteractive.
>
> Yes, it seems to me most noninteractive elemenets could just derive from
> that class though making it work may be too much work/code.
OK, let's try this, moving the common show() code into
Debconf::Element::Noninteractive:
http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debconf.238301.v2.diff
Tested with debootstrap, same changes. I'll probably put this version
into Ubuntu for now at least.
> > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat diff attached (for Ubuntu rather than
> > Debian, but hey); /etc is identical except for a popularity-contest
> > configuration file that has the output of uuidgen in it.
>
> I guess the couple of Value sets are harmless, since it's just taking
> the default value from the templates.
Right, I think so too.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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