Install report (Fujitsu Lifebook S6210)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:16:25AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> We haven't totally disabled the priority-dropping on errors. I've been
> really reluctant to do that, since it's there for a good reason ... I'd
> rather rearrange pkgsel's behaviour so that it drops you into aptitude's
> UI on errors rather than failing.

I feel strongly that errors during installation should not change the
debconf priority used when installing packages.  Is the issue that the
system-wide debconf priority is the one used by base-config, and so dropping
the priority to display the menu will also drop the priority for package
installs?  So when executing a shell from base-config, the priority will be
too low.

Maybe when executing a shell, we should export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=high?

>   Run the "Configure the Mail Transfer Agent" and "Finish configuring
>   the base system" items from the menu (putting up with the slight
>   increase in questions asked).
> 
> I think we can improve this, although it *is* an error case which we can
> ensure won't show up in the final release.

I think we can at least cover these two cases:

- Installing packages from "execute a shell"

- Configure the Mail Transfer Agent

Both of these should run with priority 'high'.

-- 
 - mdz