On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:32:57AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > P.S. > I just found that in a gtk terminal plugin shell started from the menu, to > run tasksel (after 'chroot /target') you first need to manually unset > DEBIAN_FRONTEND as the newt frontend isn't available for regular > debconf... > > Should we clear (part of) the environment when starting shells? > > And hmmm, it's rather strange that DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set to *newt* as I > was running the graphical installer... It was done on purpose: it was easier to support common d-i support operations (e.g. "anna-install openssh-client-udeb") that way. Getting reentrancy correct is *hard*. But this should probably be looked up again… Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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