Re: debconf: how to use variable substitution in a description?
Zed Pobre wrote:
> I'm making use of debconf for the first time; the original postinst
> reported a certain amount of sanity-checking information about the
> values of certain variables. So far, I haven't found any way to do
> that in debconf. I've tried using db_subst in various places to try
> to pass the values of the variables, exported and not, but no matter
> what, the substitutions come up empty. Is this a supported feature?
Yes.
Template: foo/bar
Type: note
Description: blert: ${blaz}
Blah blah blah foo: ${nerf}
db_subst foo/bar note "blert blert!"
db_subst foo/bar nerf "$NERF"
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