Re: problem with dpkg-reconfigure and noninteractive frontend
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 12:14:31PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > And, as Debconf Is Not A Registry, most questions that are under
> > debconf control should give preference to the already configured
> > local settings over anything that would come from LDAP.
>
> Assuming the local settings have actually been configured.
>
> If they're identical to the previous debconf settings and have not
> been modified by the local administrator, I see no reason why you
> could not change settings via debconf.
[...]
When a package is reconfigured, the new debconf settings and current
configuration files are available, but previous debconf settings are
not and you cannot determine that there have been no local changes.
Denis
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