Manoj Srivastava wrote: > How does one discover these templates then? Is this a > hit-or-miss effort based on the packages I may have installed on my > machine? Seems to me that makes it very likely that the user shall be > bombarded with identical questions on install then; I think this > would be quite irksome. namespace.txt in debconf-doc gives some general rules and documents a few of them. I will be glad to add more. Or this could be moved into a file included in policy and maintained that way. > > The "shared/" toplevel heirarchy seems to be popular for this sort > > of thing, at any rate; even related packages seem likely to use this > > when the question doesn't clearly belong to just one of them. > > OK. How do I discover the templates in the shared hierarchy, > then? > > > As for owning the template: /all/ of the packages own the template > > (as shown by the Owners: field in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat), > > and must ship it; or there must be a common package that all others > > depend on which owns the question, if including it in multiple > > Assuming one knows which package this is. Also, do all these > templates have to be identical? If not, which template determines the > question that is asked? Shared templates should be identical and must be duplicated in all packages that use them. The most recent text debconf sees will be used. > I am not sure where I stand on the tradeoff between multiple, > redundant questions being asked in the preconfigure phase, or a > single question being asked in the postinst (since subsequent > postinsts would not ask the question since /etc/news/organization > would exist). I tend to lean towards the single question. There is no need to ask questions in the postinst. It works like this: - preinst a asks shared/foo: unseen so displayed - preinst b asks shared/foo: seen, so question skipped ... - postinst a acts on shared/foo - postinst b acts on shared/foo ... -- see shy jo
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