Re: Confused by the different handling of debconf questions when using dpkg-reconfigure

[Bachsau WebWorX <webmaster@bachsau.com>]

When installing it should only to ask questions, that are necessary to 
run the software. dpkg-reconfigure assumes that you realy want to 
configure it, which is why it's asking you every question, regardless of 
priority.
Am 12.07.2011 11:54, schrieb Emmanuel Kasper:
> Am 2011-07-12 11:43, schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> > ----- Original message -----
> > > Hello
> > > I notice that when I install postfix, it asks me then a couple of
> > > questions using debconf, and create then a default configuration file
> > > using my answers.
> > >
> > > If I call now `dpkg-reconfigure postfix` debconf asks me the same
> > > questions PLUS a bunch of new questions which I did not have in the
> > > first in the first place.   I find it confusing.
> > >
> > > Is i a bug, a feature, am I missing something ?
> > >
> > > Manu
> >
> > That's because of the debconf priority level. Do:
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> >
> > and you can set the debconf priority to low to have
> > all the questions, always. Note that Debconf can
> > also be set to non-interactive mode...
>
> yes this is clear, I was just wondering why does debconf use a different
> different sets of question ( hence maybe a different priority level ) in
> pre-install phase versus calling dpkg-reconfigure later