On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:44:45PM +0200, Wilfried Goesgens wrote: > Wouldn't it be usefull, to add the output of > 'lspci |grep VGA' to the pci-ID selection dialog? Way ahead of you. Tried something similar years ago. Doesn't work, because there is no way to escape newlines within a debconf command stream[1], and since you obviously cannot store everyone's lspci output literally in the template, you have to use db_subst to put it there. A perusal of the xserver-xfree86 "config" maintainer script reveals where I attempted to do this, and has comments repeating the above information -- even today. But, I forgot...no one actually reads my maintainer scripts or thinks I have the first clue about these things. :-P [1] no way that I know of, anyway... -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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