Bug#336567: postinst fails runnng modprobe on 'ext3,ext2'
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:28:05PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:00:34 +0100 Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > > > Well, using debconf is packaging.
> > > Well, i disagree
> >
> > > You are makind debconfification much more complicated than it really
> > > needs to be :)
> >
> > Yaird is available for redhat as well. Is debconf available for redhat?
> >
> > If not, then the use of debconf either needs to be separated from the
> > tool itself (what I call the packaging - call it whatever you like) or
> > indeed it gets rather complicated!
>
> Indeed, you need to split out all user interaction in their own perl module,
> which can use either debconf or normal stuff, but this does by no way need any
> of the other stuff you where talking about.
Two considerations:
* Keeping the core portable across distros seems worthwhile to me,
even if it's only to create additional testing opportunities.
Using debconf in the core plays ill with this approach.
* The core is complicated enough for my taste without being interactive.
You're welcome to build a wrapper around yaird that interprets error
messages, talks debconf to the user and restarts yaird after fixing
whatever errors found, but it does not strike me as a very promissing
approach ...
Regards,
Erik
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