[Pkg-mailman-hackers] ucf: Please provide a --silent option

[Bernd S. Brentrup]

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Package: ucf
Version: 0.30
Severity: wishlist

We are using ucf to provide conffile like handling for translated
template files in mailman thusly:

! for lang in ${site_languages}; do
!   echo -n "Installing site language ${lang} "
!   mkdir -p ${mm_etc}/${lang}
!   for file in $(ls ${mm_dist}/${lang}); do
!     echo -n .
!     langfile=3D${lang}/${file}
!     ucf --debconf-ok --three-way ${mm_dist}/${langfile} ${mm_etc}/${langf=
ile} \
!       </dev/tty >/dev/tty
!     # Upon install ucf leaves a duplicate in .dpkg-dist (Bug #238730), re=
move it
!     cmp -s ${mm_etc}/${langfile} ${mm_etc}/${langfile}.dpkg-dist \
!       && rm ${mm_etc}/${langfile}.dpkg-dist
!   done
!   echo " done."
! done

As long as ucf doesn't install a file it is quiet, but when installing
a previously uninstalled language it is chatty about it's actions :(
Clearly redirecting stdout to /dev/null instead of /dev/tty is not an
option as we might need to prompt the user when encountering a
modified file.

A --silent option causing ucf to only produce output when user interaction
is required will be greatly appreciated.

As I still don't quite understand ucf - debconf interaction, I refrained
=66rom trying to provide a patch.

Regards
=2E Siggy

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Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3DC

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--=20
gelesen auf #debian.de am 19.02.2004:
18:06:51 <Wulf> was gibt's denn fuer'n puzzle spiel wo ich ein foto hab
  und das in quadrate o.ae. aufgeteilt wird, die ich dann wieder richtig
  zusammensetzen muss?
18:07:09 <yath> Wulf: ReiserFS?
18:07:33 <Joey[tm]> Wulf, ich haette xpuzzle anstatt reiserfs gedacht,
  aber reiserfs ist spannender.

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