On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 09:36 +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > What happens is that debconf asks the questions (not all the questions I > > would like), > Not asking all the questions sounds like a dpkg-configure priority > level. I considered this and changed my priority, still on the initial install not all the questions are asked. They are asked on a dpkg-reconfigure though. > > the entries in /etc/dbconfig-common/postfix-cluebringer are all > > empty strings. > Even the first one dbc_install ? Even the dbc_install line is an empty string > If dbc_install is anything but true then most if not all of the > subsequent lines will be false. Hmmm, is there a way to check for this and fix it in the maintainer script? > > dbc_generate_include="template:/etc/cluebringer/cluebringer.conf" > > dbc_generate_include_perms="660" > > dbc_generate_include_owner="root:www-data" > > dbc_generate_include_args="-o template_infile=/usr/share/doc/postfix-cluebringer/templates/cluebringer.conf -U" > OK, so you're using the templates. I've only used the db_get strings but > that generally looks like a better way. Would be, if I could get the script to generate it :) > If I have problems with my postinst, I generally make a verbose postinst > script that blurts out everything it is doing etc. It's often found > what I'm missing. I did enable "set -x" to see what I could find ... then I cam across something saying that if anything output before debconf then debconf was screwed. > > these packages don't rely on postfix-cluebringer I would like to be able > > to access the debconf/dbconfig-common database entries for > > postfix-cluebringer (if it is installed) to optionally configure them > > automagically for the user. Is this possible? > Did you try making a dummy package and using > db_get postfix-cluebringer/myvariable That is exactly the answer I was looking for ... so what is the easiest way to determine if a package is installed and managed by dbconfig-common? > > While debugging the postinst script I also noticed a whole lot of > > variables not mentioned in any documentation or example being used by > > dbconfig-common and I was wondering if any of these are usable in the > > config/postinst script (for forcing debconf to ask specific questions > If its not documented then you might, but then the maintainer might > change the name/function of that variable too. I'd not depend on these. > They're shell scripts, so not exactly great at information hiding. Thanks for the heads up there :) -- Nikolai Lusan <nikolai@lusan.id.au>
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