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Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seede

Subject: Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded
From: Colin Watson
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:10:03 +0100
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:13:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > That's possible ... suggestions for naming of the common class? I'd been
> > thinking the new classes were small enough not to matter too much.
> > 
> > Maybe some magic could go into Debconf::Element::Noninteractive.
> 
> Yes, it seems to me most noninteractive elemenets could just derive from
> that class though making it work may be too much work/code.

OK, let's try this, moving the common show() code into
Debconf::Element::Noninteractive:

  http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debconf.238301.v2.diff

Tested with debootstrap, same changes. I'll probably put this version
into Ubuntu for now at least.

> > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat diff attached (for Ubuntu rather than
> > Debian, but hey); /etc is identical except for a popularity-contest
> > configuration file that has the output of uuidgen in it.
> 
> I guess the couple of Value sets are harmless, since it's just taking
> the default value from the templates.

Right, I think so too.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]


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