Re: User output (_not_ prompting) vs prompting in postinst scripts
Hi Andreas:
Yes thank you. Probably good to hold off on upload until this issue is
resolved.
So, just to check, there is no way to simply tell the user, e.g., via echo
somewhere?
I believe if we put the note in postinst when it is called with the
configure command-line parameter this would only happen when configuring the
package anyway.
Just personally, I know I would _hate_ to have to be prompted when I'm
installing a package, especially when it's just to go to some URL. On the
other hand, it _would_ make me pay attention, and otherwise I might just
complain to a mailing list :)
Thanks
Misha
p.s. By the way, is Debian Med (or Debian Pure Blends in general) part of
Ubuntu Merge:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging
i.e., do all of our packages eventually end up in Ubuntu by default? That
would be neat :)
Thx
Andreas Tille-5 wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Misha Koshelev wrote:
>> I started writing a nice long detailed email about this but realized
>> my question was rather simple so I'll skip the details... (ok I lied
>> they are below)
>>
>> I realize user _prompting_ in postinst must be done with debconf.
>>
>> What about user _output_?
>
> You can also display a note via debconf and this makes probably sense in
> openmrs. If you ask me the config script is the more apropriate place.
> Rationale: The user will read this note in any case before he tries to
> start working with the programm. However if he installs a bunch of
> packages together with openmrs it makes sense to be interupted (also a
> note needs pressing <Enter>) only in the configure process to enable him
> fetching a cup of coffee after the configure process is finished. If he
> comes back and realises a second interuption in the postinst and then
> has to wait until everything else is finished before he can start
> working this is not nice.
>
> (I assume I should not yet upload the current openmrs package until this
> question is solved, right?)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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