[Piuparts-devel] piuparts test failed for apt-listbugs: please help!

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 16:47:08 +0200 Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2014-05-24 16:12, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 May 2014 13:32:29 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> So, whats the best way to disable apt-listbugs after installing it?
> > 
> > I think the best way is to set the environment variable
> > APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND to "none", as documented in the apt-listbugs man
> > page.
> > This will make apt-listbugs load its required libraries and then exit
> > with 0 status without doing anything else.
> 
> Can this be configured via debconf? So we could preseed it ...

No, it cannot, as far as I know.
I mean: apt-listbugs does not explicitly use debconf for any
configuration option.

I am not knowledgeable enough about debconf, so I am not sure whether
it can be used anyway to set an arbitrary environment variable, but I
suspect that this not what you were thinking about...

> Editing anything that was shipped in /etc (or elsewhere) is caught by
> the debsums check ...

Yep, that was my understanding.

> but creating a file would be possible ...

I don't know if there's a way to set an environment variable by just
creating a file. Or did you mean something else?


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