Re: debconf, readline-frontend and critical notes: How to really stop?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Sebastian Ley <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> schrieb:

> * Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Halting the install is exactly what I want, because if the warning just
>> scrolls by it will be overlooked for sure. But what am I doing wrong
>> that it does not halt? I just do
>>
>> if [ "$display_note" = true ]; then
>>   db_subst tetex-bin/changed-default changed_question "$display_question"
>>   db_input critical tetex-bin/changed-default || true
>>   db_go
>> fi
>
> If the user has ever seen this note, it will be arked as "seen" in debconf's 
> database and not be shown anymore, unless it is running in reconfigure mode. 
> This is sometime not desirable, so if you need to show that note at all 
> costs, you can clear this seen flag by:
>
> db_fset tetex-bin/changed-default seen false

This is not the problem - the note is shown when and as often as I
intend it. But with the readline frontend, the message is just scrolled
by, it doesn't stop. And I want it to stop.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie