Frank Küster wrote:
> - 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?
No, you would have to use FSET to manipulate a flag. And all changes
take effect immediatly.
> - 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.
That's correct.
> - 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:~$
Debconf does not understand ~ for home in .debconfrc. Try using
environment variable expansions: ${HOME}
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