Some debconf questions

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi,

I read again through debconf's manpages, but couldn't find answers to my
questions. You can prepend a "Where can I find documenation about" to
every question, if you like:

- If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its
  "seen" flag? And if it does, does it take effect immediately (i.e.,
  also for a following db_inut ...), or only in the next run of the
  config file?

- If I set a debconf question's seen flag to "false" with db_fset, it
  will still be set to "true" again if the question is then asked to the
  user - no need to revert manually? I would be very surprised if this
  wasn't so, but someone else was in doubt.

- What do I have to do to set up a test environment? I have created a
  ~/.debconfrc and defined my testing database there, I have copied part
  of the main database to it (as root), using debconf-copydb. However,
  the templates file hasn't been copied, and I get an error message:

alhambra:~# debconf-copydb configdb frankdb --pattern='^tetex' \
             --config=Name:frankdb --config=Driver:File \
             --config=Filename:/home/frank/.debconf/config.dat
alhambra:~# chown frank:frank /home/frank/.debconf/config.dat 

frank@alhambra:~$ egrep -v '^#|^$' .debconfrc | head -7
Config: frankdb
Templates: frankdb
Name: config
Driver: File
Mode: 644
Reject-Type: password
Filename: ~/.debconf/config.dat
frank@alhambra:~$ debconf-show tetex-base
debconf: DbDriver "config": could not open ~/.debconf/config.dat
frank@alhambra:~$ 

I didn't find the manpages very helpful, is there some other
documentation?

Thanks, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie