Install report (Fujitsu Lifebook S6210)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:23:10AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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?

My base-config changes today to drop the user into aptitude when
automatic package selection fails already do 'DEBIAN_PRIORITY=high
aptitude --without-recommends'. Together with the removal of the MTA
configuration step, I think that should close this issue.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]