Bug#274609: base-config: support random (vs. sequential) access to menu items

[Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a command line switch argument as:
> > 
> > base-config menu
> > 
> > to pop up the menu list first instead of the first menu item.
> > 
> > This is useful if you want to configure single parts.
> 
> DEBIAN_PRIORITY=medium base-config

Uhm, such command line doesn't seem to work for me..

Am I missing something?

Cheers,

Free

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-multimedia-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.59             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                     0.5.27           Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                1:2.12-10        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data            2002.12.04dbs-46 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-55    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.4.30.5         Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.8.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base            0.14.1-5         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-30.1     Change and administer password and

-- debconf information:
* tzconfig/choose_country_zone_single: true
  base-config/menu/mta:
  tzconfig/select_zone:
  tzconfig/verify_choices: true
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/BR: East
  base-config/intro:
  apt-setup/security-updates: true
  apt-setup/another: false
  base-config/title:
  base-config/menu/finish:
  debian-installer/language: it_IT:it:en_GB:en
  base-config/late_command:
  apt-setup/mirror: http.us.debian.org
  base-config/start-display-manager: true
  base-config/menu/apt-setup:
  base-config/menu/keyboard:
  tzconfig/title:
  debian-installer/country: IT
* apt-setup/directory: /var/www/debian
* base-config/install-problem:
  tzconfig/change_timezone: false
  base-config/menu/hostname:
* apt-setup/cd/another: false
  apt-setup/non-free: false
* apt-setup/badedit: revert to backup
  mirror/suite: testing
  apt-setup/baddir:
  base-config/menu/pkgsel:
  base-config/menu/timezone:
  base-config/menu/intro:
  base-config/menu/passwd:
  apt-setup/hostname:
  base-config/menu/pon:
  base-config/login:
* tzconfig/gmt: false
  apt-setup/title:
  mirror/http/proxy:
  apt-setup/contrib: false
  base-config/main-menu: Set up users and passwords
  base-config/early_command:
* tzconfig/geographic_area: Europe
* apt-setup/cd/dev: /dev/cdrom
  apt-setup/country: United States
  debian-installer/keymap: it
* apt-setup/badsource:
  base-config/use-ppp: false
* apt-setup/uri_type: edit sources list by hand
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/US: Eastern
  apt-setup/not-mirror:
  base-config/get-hostname: debian
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone_multiple: Europe/Rome
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/CA: Eastern
* apt-setup/security-updates-failed:
  base-config/menu/shell:
* apt-setup/cd/bad:
  base-config/invalid-hostname: