Re: apt-utils
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> It is supposed to be optional. In fact, I cannot see how it could
> possibly be failing as you show. The || true is there so no matter what
> status code dpkg-preconfigure returns, apt always sees a return code of
> zero.
I thought that was pretty odd too.
> I have never seen this behavior except for when people have told debconf
> to re-show questions, or with a couple of broken packages that force
> debconf to redisplay seen questions. In the default configuration, it
> works, and has worked for a long time.
The two cases that spring to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking
questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least
decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd
told it to use the text interface the first time around.) But I don't
recall any cases where I've been asked a question in the preconfiguring
stage and it didn't get repeated later. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened,
of course, just that I don't remember it.
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