Re: debconf help
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> (looks at debconf db with 'less', blinks)
> My debconf priority seems to have been silently reset to critical.
Yes, exactly. That happened about 3 weeks ago to most people, the bug that
did it is now fixed of course.
> It might be that these problems are due to the fact it's already asked the
> questions, but shouldn't dpkg-reconfigure override that? Ahhh, I think I see
> the problem: if your priority is set to "critical", you cannot change it this
> way! The priority question is asked at priority "medium". Shouldn't this be
> changed?
No. The docs say to use dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf for a reason.
> One other thing: /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db and /etc/debconf.cfg disagree:
> debconf.db says that my priority is set to "critical" (which is certainly how
> things are behaving), while /etc/debconf.cfg says it's set to "low" (which is
> what I expected, and which I thought I selected in debconf itself) Which one
> is authoritative?
/etc/debconf.cfg is way out of date and no longer used (since September).
I'll throw in something to delete it.
--
see shy jo
Reply to: