Re: User output (_not_ prompting) vs prompting in postinst scripts
Sorry for two messages - maybe you're right.
Your idea would have the definite plus of having translations of our message
- which we would not get with an echo command.
Sorry for double post :(
Misha
misha680 wrote:
>
> 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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