Re: "Configuring PACKAGE" messages without a version number
Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl> wrote:
>On Sun 04 Mar 2001, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> I get lots of messages like this during upgrades:
>>
>> Configuring Dump
>> ----------------
>>
>> /etc/fstab contains zeroes in the dump frequencies fields
>> Your /etc/fstab file contains zeroes in the dump frequencies fields
>> for all your filesystems. This tells dump that you never intend to
>> backup your drives. In particular, this will keep the -w and -W
>> options to dump from working.
>>
>> Edit the /etc/fstab file to implement your local backup policy.
[...]
>> Am I right in assuming these messages are generated by debconf? If
>> not, what does produce them?
>
>It _is_ generated by debconf, on behalf of (apparently) dump.
dump shouldn't be setting isdefault in the way it does, though, and
that's definitely a bug (one that's very easy to cause by accident when
you're playing around with isdefault, too ...).
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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