Re: Problems with using debconf in init script...

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> Philippe Troin wrote:
> > This means that the info is stored twice:
> >  
> >  - in the "config file".
> > 
> >  - in the debconf database.
> > 
> > What should happen if the "config file" is changed outside of debconf
> > and then a change is made with debconf ?
> 
> There was recently a large thread about this entitled "use and abuse of
> debconf". The head message explains one rather simple solution. What you're
> trying to do is pretty firmly in the abuse category.

I've retracted this, and made some changes to the am-utils package,
following your rules explained in:

     Subject: use and abuse of debconf 
     From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 
     Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:58:33 -0800
     To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

I would like to make things more automatic, and explained a way to
handle this in:

     From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
     Subject: Re: Problems with using debconf in init script...
     To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
     Date: 29 Jan 2001 20:15:37 -0800
     Message-ID: <[🔎] 87snm1hdzq.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org>

I would appreciate if you could comment on this.

Phil.