Re: Conditional use of debconf

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:52:19PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      if !grep -q include /etc/dictd.conf
>        then
>        [Display message]
>      fi
> 
>      I can't find anything in the debconf documentation or the command
> available in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/debconf_specification.txt.gz
> that would permit this type of conditional display of a message.  Is
> there something in the debconf documentation that I'm missing?

Put the conditional around db_input in the .config script. If db_input
isn't called, the question won't be asked (i.e. the message won't be
displayed).

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]