Bug#820984: proftpd-basic: cannot preseed / ignores local config changes

[Hilmar Preuße]

tags 820984 + help
stop

On 14.04.2016 12:25, Florian Ernst wrote:

Hi,

> please consider the following (abridged) transcript of trying to run
> proftpd-basic from inetd, but ending up having it running
> standalone:
>
Im played a little bit on that bug, w/o success. Initially there was the 
following code in the ...config file:

<snip>
#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Source debconf library.
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

action=$1
version=$2

db_title ProFTPD configuration
db_input high shared/proftpd/inetd_or_standalone || true
db_go
<snip>

and here is the relevant part of the template file:

<dnip>
Template: shared/proftpd/inetd_or_standalone
Type: select
__Choices: from inetd, standalone
Default: standalone
<snip>

However I'm failing to understand, what is wrong on that code as it is 
nearly a copy of the template examples delivered w/ debconf. Of course 
the fix for debbug#707689 was wrong:

+db_set shared/proftpd/inetd_or_standalone standalone
  db_input high shared/proftpd/inetd_or_standalone || true
-db_go
+db_go || true

At first I suspected the <Space> in the possible values "from inetd" 
could be a problem, I replaced it by "_" w/o solving the problem.

Could anybody have a look at the problem and give an advise? Tagging it 
"help" for now.

Hilmar
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