[Debconf-devel] Bug#501794: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: --frontend should override DEBIAN_FRONTEND setting from environment
Andreas Beckmann
debian at abeckmann.de
Fri Oct 10 14:10:09 UTC 2008
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.22
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
Hi,
shouldn't command line settings override the environment?
Probably not only --frontend vs. DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but for other
parameters as well.
I just ran into a problem when I wanted to manually reconfigure a
package in a pbuilder environment (which had
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive set, but I didn't recognize this at
once). Even running
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend foobar package
just exited with 0. No questions were asked. No way to reconfigure even
debconf. Every option given to --frontend was silently overridden by
DEBIAN_FRONTEND.
These environment variables are also not mentioned in the
dpkg-reconfigure manpage, only in debconf(7) which is in a separate
package debconf-doc.
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.22 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.10.0-15 minimal Perl system
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.7.14+b1 APT utility programs
Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn debconf-doc <none> (no description available)
ii debconf-utils 1.5.22 debconf utilities
ii dialog 1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-2 GNOME desktop utilities
ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqt-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.17a-2+b1 Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
ii perl 5.10.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
* debconf/priority: low
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
* debconf/frontend: Dialog
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