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I run about 7 Debian boxes... and I keep them all
up with "unstable". I use dselect to maintain my list of packages to
install/remove, and I used to use ftp as the fetch method, but I've recently
converted all over to apt.
Anyway, some time ago (about a year, it seems),
many if not all of the packages that used debconf seemed to run through debconf
twice when I would install or upgrade a package.
One example that really sticks in my head is
"horde", where I get asked which DBMS I'm using, then I'm asked for the
username/password of the root account, and then the username/password of the
horde account....... THEN, I'm asked all of these questions AGAIN. This same
behavior seems to happen with things like samba... actually, anything that uses
debconf, it seems.
Since I maintain so many boxes, I can't be sure if
this happens on all of them or just a subset (so I don't know if it's a problem
with debconf itself or if it's a problem with a few of my boxes). Does anyone
know why this is happening?
- Joe
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