Re: New newt terminal plugin
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:51:19AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > It was done on purpose: it was easier to support common d-i support
> > operations (e.g. "anna-install openssh-client-udeb") that way.
>
> Hmmm. For me it seems more important to provide a shell that will work for
> things _users_ would want to do than things a D-I developer would do.
>
> OTOH, I see that we also have DEBIAN_FRONTEND set (to newt) for the
> regular installer...
cdebconf-newt-terminal removes all environment variables beginning with
"DEBIAN_" or "DEBCONF_" for this kind of reason.
> Does busybox' chroot give us any way to clear envvars?
You have 'env', but that's probably not very relevant as
cdebconf-gtk-terminal could just do it from C.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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