Re: Problems with using debconf in init script...
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:21:55PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:52:59PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > > Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > > One potential problem would be if the config script was being run on
> > > > a different system to that which was being configured.
> >
> > > How would you do that though ? Is there a standard way of
> > > "preconfiguring" packages on a different host (other than copying the
> > > debconf databases and templates) ?
> >
> > I don't think there's any backends that do it at the moment but it was
> > one of the considerations when debconf was being designed.
>
> Ok. It's wise then to avoid writing to the filesystem in a debconf
> config script.
Why only writing? Consider the case where the system running the configure
script has a non-modified config file (causing the question to be skipped), but
the remote system does not.
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- mdz
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