[CCing debian-x because if I get hit by a bus or arrested by Secretary Ashcroft today, the following will be important for the inheritor of our XFree86 packages to know.] On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:20:01AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > > Just answer the questions. > > Well there seem to be a lot of them. And a lot of them don't seem to have > default answers. Or in some cases any reasonable answer given my setup. Actually, they all have default answers. A few have blank default answers under most circumstances (like PCI bus ID and XKB variant), which it is safe to leave blank. > > It doesn't insist on "managing" your XF86Config-4 file now, it just insists > > on asking you questions because I need to (greatly) improve the > > PRIORITY_CEILING logic which I failed to implement correctly. > > Ick. That's, uhm, really really annoying, but I guess you know that. Yes; it's on the TODO for 4.2.1-13. > > Please see <URL: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/FAQ > (near the > > end) if you'd like to know what's going on. > > I did check there. But it seemed to say there were a million reasons why it > shouldn't be asking me all these questions and the only advice it gave was how > to convince it to take control back if it stopped. I assumed if it wasn't > managing my config file it wouldn't ask me the questions. I think it's important to have those questions answered anyway, in the event the user changes his mind about the manual configuration gig. (Unlikely, you say? I wrote the latest FAQ entry about putting the files back under automatic management because I was frequently asked. :) ) Remember that configuration questions get asked in the config maintainer script, which runs even prior to the preinst script in some cases. I can't make many assumptions about the filesystem. The thought of having a debconf template that is never shown to the user but just stores a boolean for a configuration file's management state has occurred to me, but I haven't thought through it yet. Before I implement such a thing, I need to think through all the possible scenarios. When I fix the priority ceiling business, you'll only get asked a few of the highest-priority questions (if any at all, depending on your configured question priority threshold). The intended effect of the priority ceiling is to treat the existence of XF86Config-4 as "a reasonable default answer exists for this question", meaning the value in the configuration file. Per debconf-devel(7), this means the question priority would be capped at medium. And that's exactly what I tried to do, except my brain busted and I cannot achieve what I want with simple parameter substitution tricks in Bourne shell. In the meantime, I suggest just hitting enter until the questions go away (if you're using the dialog frontend -- if not, do the equivalent for your frontend). -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Yeah, that's what Jesus would do. branden@debian.org | Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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