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Thu Nov 23 21:57:28 2000 UTC
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* dpkg-reconfigure: Wait until after loading db before doing frontend
fix up. Closes: #77847
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Thu Nov 23 07:25:36 2000 UTC
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joey
* Typo.
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Wed Nov 22 07:47:28 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed noninteractive note element to not let the shell get its grubby
little hands on unvalidated input, which was making it puke.
Closes: #77589 and a whole raft of other bugs filed against X which we
will be merging to it. Special thanks to Ingo Saitz for providing many
debug logs, and the person I've forgot who should delete my debug
account from their box now.
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Sun Nov 19 06:32:31 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Temporarily depends on perl-5.6 until perl-5.6-base is fixed so
POSIX.pm works without the former package installed. Grrre.
Closes: #77399, #77397 (really perl's bugs, but it has enough open on
this issue already).
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Sat Nov 18 05:20:42 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* The stuff the postinst adds to apt.conf now doesn't return a error
code and make the apt run fail even if peices of the system like perl
are broken, as they are now for so many people. I had held off on this
change for a long time, but enough is enough.
* Also some not-yet-ready copletion stuff in the text frontend.
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Fri Nov 17 00:37:39 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* The text frontend now supports backing up! It's now probably the
most usable of all debconf frontends, if you're comfortable at the
command line. Give it a try! (Tab completion is on the horizon, too.)
* A pretty painful reorganization of how all Elements return and validate
values -- at least it's consistent now.
* Probability I broke something this time: 76.51%
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Thu Nov 16 05:25:41 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Added something to the help to make select widgets more obvious.
* Fixed sizing of select widgets.
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Thu Nov 16 00:30:36 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Modified all the frontends to deal with this scenario:
A config scripts asks questions a, b, and c. a and c are asked at
priorities that make them visible, b is not. The user gets to c,
and backs up.
Previously, debconf would loop back to b, skip it again, and return the
user to c. Now it is smart enough to go back to a once b is skipped.
* Changed how debconf keeps track of what questions have been seen
before. Now it tracks this info on a per confmodule basis, and when a
confmodule terminates, sets the "seen" flag on (almost) all questions
that were displayed. Questions that are shown multiple times during the
same confmodule run will indeed appear multiple times[1]. This makes
supporting backing up trivial; it means that people have no excuse to
play around with the isdefault flag anymore, which they almost always
got wrong anyway; and it renames that flag to the much clearer "seen".
* It is possible that this change breaks confmodules that expect to be able
to display the same question twice with impunity.
* NOTE NOTE NOTE if you use this new behavior, make sure to depend on
debconf (>= 0.5)!
* The isdefault flag will continue to work, it is just mapped to the
inverse of the "seen" flag now, and deprecated.
* All the frontends were reworked to various degrees to make this work,
and I got rid of a fair bit of redundant code too.
* Modified debconf's own config script to use these features and sure
enough, it looks quite clean and simple now.
* Updated all docs.
* Added nasty code to transition from the isdefault flag to the new flag.
* Fixed backup in dialog frontend, 255 == -1
* Just to make life more interesting, I made debconf depend on perl 5.6;
which allows me to remove all my crud working around bugs in perl
5.005, and lets me use lots of nifty 5.6-specific features, but not,
sadly, lvalues.
* Probability of all this breaking something: 99.99%
.
[1] Unless they are to be displayed in the same block.
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Wed Nov 15 23:43:29 2000 UTC
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joey
Oh, tons of changes. See the changelog. Checking in before I start ripping
it to peices again..
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Wed Nov 15 18:28:50 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* NOT READY FOR RELEASE
* Modified all the frontends to deal with this scenario:
A config scripts asks questions a, b, and c. a and c are asked at
priorities that make them visible, b is not. The user gets to c,
and backs up.
Previously, debconf would loop back to b, skip it again, and return the
user to c. Now it is smart enough to go back to a once b is skipped.
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Sat Nov 11 01:32:24 2000 UTC
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* Corrected man page location, Closes: #76747
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Fri Nov 10 00:00:08 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Corrected italian choices list to include translation of "critical".
I don't see any problems in the other translations. (No, there is no
automated check yet.) Closes: #75312
* Slang frontend now forces a refresh each time. It pains me to do this,
but it prevents screen corruption if something is output in between.
Closes: #72891
* Wrote a debconf.8 man page, Closes: #58287 It's very tiny right now;
I'd sorta like to convert the docbook userguide.xml and use it as the
man page, but I cannot figure out docbook2man. Help!
* Closes: #76273, this bug is only in a not really released version.
* Randolph updated apt-extracttemplates to build with the new apt. I
have converted that to use ifdefs so it should build with both.
* Added a hostname to the mails sent out by the noninteractive frontend,
as admins may have multiple hosts configured to sent mail with the same
hostname. Closes: #76653 Also reformatted the messages some for clarity
and conciseness.
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Tue Oct 31 21:33:23 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed a subtle bug in the slang frontend. This bug made noninteractive
elements not be "shown" ever, so they didn't send mail. It also made
noninteractive select elements get "" shoved into them whenever they
were INPUT, which messed up some things like progeny's postfix package.
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Thu Oct 26 20:49:57 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Added a check to the metaget command to make sure the requested field
exists.
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Mon Oct 23 23:34:08 2000 UTC
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joey
* Ignore any number of leading and trailing newlines around templates,
since the spec doesn't really say There Must Be Only One, and it can be
useful to have more. Closes: #75420
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Mon Oct 23 19:20:03 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* confmodule: Properly quote arguments to frontend, just in case.
Closes: #74827
* debconf-loadtemplates was totally hosed. It forgot to load the db up,
and so it wiped it all out when it saved it! Fixed, Closes: #74826
* Added basic syntax checking and usage to debconf-getlang (and
debconf-loadtemplate too). Closes: #74825
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Mon Oct 23 17:37:25 2000 UTC
(12 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed a typo in the preinst.
Closes: #75318, #66484, #75322, #75328, #75339, #75341, #75319, #75367,
#75399 (and probably a bunch more, but they're merged anyway). Actually
tested this time, and it actually works.
* Patch from bod to wrapper.
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Fri Oct 20 22:52:39 2000 UTC
(12 years, 7 months ago)
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* Bod rewrite the ConfModule wrapper. Now should handle errors properly.
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Fri Oct 20 21:15:56 2000 UTC
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* Moved over to a hopefully more robust check in the preinst to see if
the database needs to be converted, after receiving two reports that
the current check is not always firing. Closes: #75240
* Patch from Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr> to po/Makefile, adding
stuff for translators. It automatically merges the new debconf.pot
with .po files, and outputs stats on how up-to-date the translation is.
* Seems that the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule stub from bod
isn't good enough. :-( The problem is code that calls stuff like
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule::title directly. Ugh. Added an AUTOLOAD
with a nasty eval to deal with this. Closes: #75239
* Fixed an uninitialized value if a boolean item has no default. Bleagh.
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Wed Oct 18 08:55:48 2000 UTC
(12 years, 7 months ago)
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joey
* Removed recursive build-dependancy on debconf-utils. There were two
ways to do this, the quick hack way and the move lots of directories in
cvs way. I took the latter.
* While I was reorganizing *EVERYTHING*, I renamed all the perl modules,
what was Debian::DebConf::foo is now Debconf::foo.
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is now just Debconf::ConfModule, but
a stub module exists in the old location for backwards compatability
(thanks, bod).
* If you use the new module, you should depend on this version of
Debconf!
* This hacking also required some ugly ugly hacking of the debconf
database. Debconf needs a real database. :-(
* I guess this means the filename in all the .po files are wrong, bug
since those filenames are in comments, the .po files should continue to
work, right?
* debconf-utils now depends on debconf >= 0.4, so it will continue to
work.
* Needless to say, this was a massive PITA all around. I've NEVER going
to do this again, so I hope I got it right.
* For a short while, I considered using MakeMaker. That is, until I
noticed MakeMaker had no way of marking scripts for install into
/usr/sbin, and after not one but two perl gods advised me using it for
anything more cpmplex than a simple library package was not a good
idea. People have asked me to use MakeMaker in the past, and it's just
not going to happen unless you send me a very nice patch.
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no it's not ready for release. Yes, I have to go.
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joey
more epic struggles to change the world
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Tue Oct 17 20:57:40 2000 UTC
(12 years, 7 months ago)
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joey
* all this stuff was moved to Debconf/FrontEnd
* updated some docs to refer to proper module names
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Fri Oct 13 16:52:44 2000 UTC
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joey
* Removed CVS dirs that snuck into the binary debs.
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Fri Oct 13 15:36:49 2000 UTC
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* French templates and po file from
Martin Quinson <mquinson@zeppelin-cb.de> (shrug ;-)
* Added some useful info to Template parse exceptions.
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Thu Sep 28 14:58:13 2000 UTC
(12 years, 7 months ago)
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joey
* Japanese now fully up to date thanks to Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>
Closes: #72697
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Wed Sep 27 16:37:48 2000 UTC
(12 years, 7 months ago)
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joey
* Copyright change: debconf is now licensed under the terms of the BSD
copyright, minus the advertising clause. I have contacted all
contributors and they agree with this license change. This also changes
the license of the Configuration Management spec. The sole exception to
this change is some libapt code in Client/preconfigure that is part of
the /usr/lib/debconf/apt-extracttemplates binary. That code remains
under the GPL, as it is part of libapt. It will hopefully be moved back
into libapt one day. apt-extracttemplates is not necessary for the
proper functioning of debconf; it is just a binary used in an
optimization.
* Motivations for this change were various. I want programs to be able to
use debconf even if they are not licensed under the GPL, and it could
be argued debconf serves as a library (with varying degrees of
correctness depending which part you were talking about). I would like
debconf to be available to others, including the BSD community, some of
whom I know are looking at issues that could possibly be solved by
debconf.
* Several reogranaizations for this. Deleted doc/COPYING. Added a README.
Included the text of the copyright into debian/copyright, since it is a
slightly modified BSD license (minus point 3). Modified numerous files
for the new copyright. Removed Client/preconfigure/README, and included
the text that was in it (expended) indo debian/copyright. Added
doc/COPYING to Client/preconfigure/ (how many copies of the GPL do
_you_ have in your cvs repository? ;-) Caused debian/copyright to be
linked to doc/COPYRIGHT in the source tarball.
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important fixes
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Mon Sep 25 19:35:11 2000 UTC
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* Updated templates.ja from Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>. Still
out of date, though. Closes: #71937
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Thu Sep 21 19:12:42 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Whoops, let's not install cvs .#* files into the binary package or
generate POD docs for them, shall we?
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Tue Sep 19 07:47:09 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Reworded and reformatted some of Debconf's questions. Translations:
not yet up to date.
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Tue Sep 19 05:45:53 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Sometimes you put in something to be helpful, and it comes back to bite
you in a major way. Say you add some code to /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
to allow broken postinst scripts that use debconf to still echo stuff to
stdout and not have it go to debconf. Then you find that this hack makes
legitimate code that uses the confmodule and uses the perl ConfModule
library nested inside, not work. So your choices are to add a further
hack to the perl ConfModule, or end all these hacks and do things
cleanly. Unfortunatly, several packages have come to depend on the hack.
What do you do?
* Well I chickened out and hacked Client::ConfModule. But I have added an
entry to the TODO, and if you have a broken debconf-using package,
expect a bug report soon.
* Some copyright file cleanups.
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Wed Sep 13 04:43:44 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* My night for stupid debconf bugs. It turns out that the
string element in the dialog frontend was causinng the
default from the template to be used if the a text input
line was returned empty. Now "" is returned as it should
be. I know one package bitten by this is cvs, in its
repository directory selection question.
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Wed Sep 13 04:10:51 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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* Fixed a really stupid typo in the editor and text frontends
that made them ignore the width of the screen.
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Tue Sep 5 05:45:20 2000 UTC
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joey
* Don't strip Client::ConfModule of pod docs.
* Build depends on a links that support -dump. Don't know when this was
added, so I'll just build-depend on the current version.
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Fri Sep 1 20:46:20 2000 UTC
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joey
* Questions w/o extended descriptions are a bad thing. The tutorial
now speaks more strogly about this.
* Added Spanish translation thanks to Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>.
Only the .po file so far, not templates.
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Fri Sep 1 01:50:35 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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* Corrected a title refresh bug in the slang frontend, Closes: #70693
* Other minor fixes.
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Wed Aug 30 23:00:49 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Spelling corrections from Sean, who should ispell the xml next time.
* Killed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #70508 (This one is
tickled only by nasty packages like sslwrap that provide no extended
descriptions to their questions. Evil.)
* Fixed a debconf corrupted database crash. This is, I think, just
another bit of fallout from the very old debconf db corruption problem
(see changelog entry 0.3.19). Closes: #69781, #69582
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Sat Aug 26 00:42:38 2000 UTC
(12 years, 8 months ago)
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* Corrected the wrapping-of-bulleted-lists issue. It is now possible to
have bulletted lists or other preformatted text in a templates file
just like you would in a normal debian control file -- 2 space indent.
Closes: #65518
* This was too easy. Silly me.
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Tue Aug 22 01:29:14 2000 UTC
(12 years, 9 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed preconfiguring -- since version 0.3.60, it has unnecessarily
skipped preconfiguring of all packages that Depend: on debconf w/o a
version. Silly thinko..
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Sat Aug 12 09:20:48 2000 UTC
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joey
* Switched to using links to convert html to text, since it
a) handles tables ok
b) doesn't omit link references
* Long-overdue fix to the specification -- added the list of commands to
it -- they were removed when it was converted to xml.
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Sat Aug 5 02:37:46 2000 UTC
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* Make a nice non-scary message if Term::Stool is not installed and one
tries to use the slang frontend. For some reason, normal perl cannot
load lib messages seem to be scaring users to death. Closes: #68557
* Fixed doc dir symlink, Closes: #68558
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Thu Aug 3 22:43:26 2000 UTC
(12 years, 9 months ago)
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joey
* Reworked rules file, since this package now has arch-indep and -dep
parts. Split build dependancies along those lines. Closes: #68461
* Removed obsolete Version.pm (Randolph's code does the checking now).
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Wed Aug 2 01:25:35 2000 UTC
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* Passthrough fix. s/carp/croak/
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* So we (culus, tausq, joeyh) did some benchmarking, and figured out how
to speed up dpkg-preconfigure by about 3x. It turns out most of the
existing overhead was in calls to dpkg-deb, which is slow, and in all
the forking necessary to do said calls, which is also slow. So we moved
the initial package scanning out into a C++ program which links to apt
code and is quite fast. (Sadly, it's also quite big, and has bloated
debconf by 30k and made it arch-dependent.) Anyway, I guess it's worth
it to save a few seconds. <shrug>
* Some internal code reogranizations and function renames and stuff,
to make things more flexable.
* New Passthrough "frontend" to allow third-party GUI operation, by
Randolph Chung. This is currently somewhat experimental.
* Frontend fallback is now based on per-starting-frontend lists -- ie,
slang can fallback to dialog while dialog falls back to slang, without
an infinite loop being created. Closes: #68337
* Capabilities fix: There was a problem if, eg, debconf and then cvs were
configured. Debconf supports BACKUP, cvs does not, but the frontends
were not informed of the change. Now they are, and the slang frontend
properly dims out the back button in this situation.
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Passthrough frontend stuff
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Fri Jul 21 05:09:44 2000 UTC
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some code reorgs. The point is to let me try bods stuff, but my code wasn't
flexable enough to accomidate it well. It is now.
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Tue Jul 18 06:59:35 2000 UTC
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* So we (culus, tausq, joeyh) did some benchmarking, and figured out how
to speed up dpkg-preconfigure by about 3x. It turns out most of the
existing overhead was in calls to dpkg-deb, which is slow, and in all
the forking necessary to do said calls, which is also slow. So we moved
the initial package scanning out into a C++ program which links to apt
code and is quite fast. (Sadly, it's also quite big, and has bloated
debconf by 30k and made it arch-dependent.) Anyway, I guess it's worth
it to save a few seconds.
Not uploading yet, I want to sit on this at least overnight. Bod may yet
save us all ;-)
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Tue Jul 18 00:30:18 2000 UTC
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* Cleanups to the xml docs to use "question" consistently.
* Fixed stupid tab expansion problem. It's really Text::Wraps' fault; bug
filed.
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Fri Jul 14 11:48:13 2000 UTC
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* Since jade generates the ugliest html I have ever seen, I'm now
using tidy to clean that up and indent it properly.
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Tue Jul 11 05:00:55 2000 UTC
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* Fixed some undefined value warnings, Closes: 67029
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Thu Jul 6 22:07:50 2000 UTC
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* Fixed FrontEnd::makeelement to not crash if a question has no
associated template. This should never happen, but a very old version
of debconf left behind databases with that problem. The fix is trivial:
just use $question->type instead of $question->template->type. This has
the exact same effect, with the side effect of catching undef'd
templates and not crashing. It goes on to not make an element in that
case, which is reasonable.
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Thu Jul 6 19:24:59 2000 UTC
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* s/dpkg-getlang/debconf-getlang/ # Closes: #65918
* Typo fix, Closes: #65919
* More debug code added for bug #66484.
* Added italian translation of templates file (po still needs to be
translated), from Eugenia Franzoni <eugenia@pluto.linux.it>
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Wed Jul 5 23:27:58 2000 UTC
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* Added debug code to help track down bug #66484.
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Wed Jun 28 02:06:55 2000 UTC
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* Fixed documentation of isdefault flag, which needs to be renamed.
Cf, Bug #64374.
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Mon Jun 26 21:41:34 2000 UTC
(12 years, 10 months ago)
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* Corrected a bua in how text multiselect elements parsed input: A
2-diget number would be incorrectly split into 2 numbers. Closes: #66195
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* Russian translation update.
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* Don't let the dialog frontend run with with TERM=dumb either.
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Tue Jun 13 19:38:15 2000 UTC
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* Fixed perl 5.6 specific error message.
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Fri May 26 22:59:50 2000 UTC
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* Fixed slang hide/show help button to be wide enough for
the currentl localization. Closes: #64752
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Thu May 25 21:58:03 2000 UTC
(12 years, 11 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed a minor bug in frontend -- notice when a template file has been
successfully loaded, and don't keep trying to find it.
* Applied the same fix to multiselect elements that I applied to select
elements in the last version. I think using internationalized debconf
should work pretty well now.
* The editor frontend now asks that you separate chocies in multiselect
questions with spaces and commas, so it will work if the choices
contain spaces.
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Wed May 24 21:22:14 2000 UTC
(12 years, 11 months ago)
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* Added Russian translation, by Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
* Added French translation, by Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>
* Now that I have real localizations to work with, I can find some
related problems.
- Fixed all select elements to translate back to C locale whatever is
input into them. They had been storing it internally in the language
that was being used, and passing those localized values to the
config scripts that used them, which didn't exactly work very well..
- Similarly, translate the default value, which is in the C locale, to
the current locale before using it to prompt the user.
* Made frontend fallback even more robust, mainly to deal with the results
of the above mentioned select element nastiness.
* Element::Editor::Select had the wrong parent; this is corrected.
* Added a newline at the end of the files the editor frontend generates,
since vim likes to see one there.
* Failure to make an input element has been upgraded to be a warning
message, instead of the debug message it was before. This should not
happen in normal use, if it does, I want to know. (Of course, the slang
frontend still has no multiselct elements, maybe this will remind me to
fix that sometime..)
* Fixed a nasty infinite recusion error in the web frontend, which
actually works now.
* Reworked the debconf debug mechanism. It now uses symbolic names for
various types of debug messages, and DEBCONF_DEBUG specifies which
types are shown. See the User's Guide for details.
* Some reorganizations to the Tutorial; split out some big sections into
entities to aid maintenance. Moved namespace.txt into the tutorial as
an Appendix.
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* Now that I have a real localization to work with, I can find some
related problems.
- Fixed all select elements to translate back to C locale whatever is
input into them. They had been storing it internally in the language
that was being used, and passing those localized values to the
config scripts that used them, which didn't exactly work very well..
- Similarly, translate the default value, which is in the C locale, to
the current locale before using it to prompt the user.
* Made frontend fallback even more robust, mainly to deal with the results
of the above mentioned select element nastiness.
* Element::Editor::Select had the wrong parent; this is corrected.
* Added a newline at the end of the files the editor frontend generates,
since vim likes to see one there.
* Failure to make an input element has been upgraded to be a warning
message, instead of the debug message it was before. This should not
happen in normal use, if it does, I want to know. (Of course, the slang
frontend still has no multiselct elements, maybe this will remind me to
fix that sometime..)
* Fixed a really nasty infinite recusion error in the web frontend, which
actually works now.
* Reworked the debconf debug mechanism. It now uses symbolic names for
various types of debug messages, and DEBCONF_DEBUG specifies which
types are shown. See the User's Guide for details.
* Some reorganizations to the Tutorial; split out some big sections into
entities to aid maintenance.
Not yet done; moving to my home box for more work.
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starting to fix localization problems
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* Fixed typo that broken the web frontend (#64474)
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* Updated and completed the Polish l10n thanks to Marcin Owsiany
<porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.
* Now build depends on the latest debhelper to automatically merge
translated templates files.
* Corrected stupid mistake I made when I added sprintf() calls. Now new
Polish translation is fully functional.
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Wed May 17 19:45:06 2000 UTC
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* Fixed minor bug in Template stringification.
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Tue May 16 05:13:26 2000 UTC
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* Note to self: test before uploading
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Mon May 15 23:43:14 2000 UTC
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* Fixed a minor bug in debconf-getlang to do with when Default needs to
be translated.
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Mon May 15 22:59:30 2000 UTC
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joey
* Jazzed up the Template class. It can now load in templates files and
instantiate whole sets of templates on the fly. This is good because
that code used to be in ConfigDb, which is the part of debconf that
will probably go away eventually.
* Templates can also strignify themselves now, which recreates a
templates file entry. And there is a class method for stringifying a
whole list of objects, which can recreate a whole templates file.
* The above new functionality lets me use the Template class for
something new: management of translated templates files. Added some new
utilities to help with splitting and merging templates files for
translation. The idea for these utilities came from Michael Sobolev
<mss@transas.com>. Thanks, Michael!
* Added mentions of these utilities to the tutorial.
* Broke off all the small and non-essential utilities into a new
debconf-utils package. Developers and extreme power users may want it,
others will not.
* All the programs in debconf-utils now have names starting with
"debconf-". This means dpkg-debconf has been renmaed (again) to
debconf-communicate, and dpkg-loadtemplate has been renamed to
debconf-loadtemplate. I hope these are the last name changes.
* Used sprintf in all gettext() calls that have a parameter. This may
have messed up the polish translation though.
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* gettextized the entire source tree, so it can now be translated. I used
Locale::gettext for this, but since it is not in base, I have arranged
for debconf to continue working if it is not found (just using the C
locale).
* Added polish translation from Marcin Owsiany
<porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.
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(13 years ago)
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* Prompted priority to standard, since lynx depends on it. Closes: #63346
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Wed Apr 19 22:59:52 2000 UTC
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joey
* Don't use the 'lib' module in Client/frontend. Closes: #62629
* Dpkg-preconfigure in apt mode bails if it is asked to scan just one
package. Thete's no benefit to preconfiguration if you're just doing
one, because apt is just going to install it immediatly anyway. This
optimizes for the "apt-get install foo" case.
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Thu Apr 13 22:46:24 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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joey
* Catch undefined value returned if a package that is not installed is
preconfigured, and use '' instead. This clears up the undefined value
warning people have been seeing for months.
Closes: #55498, #57792, #62263, #53657
* Fixed for a while: Closes: #48816
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Sun Apr 9 03:17:08 2000 UTC
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* Corrected bug in slang frontend -- if the last item in a dropdown
select box was default, it was not highlighted as such correctly.
Closes: #62021
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Sat Apr 8 21:38:28 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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* debconf-doc conflicts with older versions of debconf that contained the
manpages. Closes: #62030
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Sat Apr 8 07:42:08 2000 UTC
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joey
* Added crazy new frontend: it just makes a pseudo-config file, and
pops up your favorite editor on it.
* Killed question w/o template debug code, I'm reasonably sure the problem
is just happenning to people who had a very old version of debconf, and
that the problem is being corrected properly.
Closes: #62004, #61970, #61947
* Added debug code to try to track down the uninitialized value in
confmodule startup/open2 bug.
* Fixed a bug in the 'use base' expander that was causing multiple
inheritance to turn into syntax errors.
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Thu Apr 6 00:40:03 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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joey
* dpkg-reconfigure detects if your default frontend is Noninteractive,
and uses Slang instead so you actually get to reconfigure the package.
Closes: #57614
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Tue Apr 4 23:10:25 2000 UTC
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* And this is an upload with the -doc package turned back on. Maybe one
day a ftp admin will be kind enough to approve that new package..
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Tue Apr 4 23:07:50 2000 UTC
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joey
* This is a quick build w/o the -doc package, to allow debconf to get
quickly through incoming without waiting for manual approval (I have
some important bugs fixed in the many versions below that are stuck in
Incoming.)
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Mon Apr 3 22:30:17 2000 UTC
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joey
* Don't crash if a question has no associated template. That should never
happen, but I have one report of it happening. I suspect that some
rather old version of debconf caused the problem. It's also possible
that deleting the templates.db file might cause similar problems. I've
made debconf ask for bug reports in this case, so I can gather more
data.
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Mon Apr 3 21:51:00 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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joey
* Tightended up regexp that pareses Template: lines, so spaces are not
allowed in the name of a template. As a side effect, this just ignores
trailing space on all fields in a templates file. I hope this has no
bad side effects..
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Sat Apr 1 22:21:22 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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* Minor doc updates.
* Fixed syntax error in Client::ConfModule, Closes: #61535
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Fri Mar 31 01:05:04 2000 UTC
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* Used exported sub names in a few places I missed before.
* Renamed AutoSelect::frontend and AutoSelect::confmodule to
make_frontend and make_confmodule, and allow them to be exported
too.
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Fri Mar 31 00:35:36 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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joey
* Added dpkg-debconf. This is a program that lets you send commands to
debconf directly from the command line. Will probably be quite useful
for debugging purposes. (We used to have something like this a long,
long time ago, but I like this new design better.)
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Thu Mar 30 23:21:26 2000 UTC
(13 years, 1 month ago)
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joey
* Added dpkg-loadtemplate, a simple program that loads templates into the
debconf database. This is *not* intended to be used by debian packages,
but can be useful for debugging purposes and for pre-seeding the
database before installing a package.
* Moved all external manpages for perl programs into POD format.
* Updated all pod docs to fix formatting problems.
* debconf-tiny is no more. Instead, we now have debconf and debconf-doc.
This makes debconf proper be nearly as small as debconf-tiny used to be
and gets rid of the set of problems associated with debconf-tiny.
* This huge and unmanageable changelog is 20k compressed. To make debconf
a reasonable size, I am only including the last 5 changelog entries in
debconf; the rest go in -doc.
* Several modules are now Exporters, and I use that where possible to
reduce code size.
* Strip all pod docs out of modules in binary package. Ugly, but saves a
great deal of space.
* Killed off the gtk frontend. The code has been rotting, and it just
needs to be rewritten.
* Changed the AutoSelect fallbacks around, most frontends now fall back
to Slang.
* Text frontend no longer always prompts for a Enter press at the end of
a run.
* Moved some doc files into doc/ in the source package.
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* AUTOLOAD function now creates field accessor functions on the fly.
Slight speedup.
* s/property/field/g
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ok, let's release as is.
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dunno
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Fri Mar 24 07:27:20 2000 UTC
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help window can now be hidden
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Fri Mar 24 04:18:45 2000 UTC
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skip duplicate questions
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Thu Mar 23 02:17:18 2000 UTC
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adjusted dependancies
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Thu Mar 23 00:22:25 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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doc updates for slang frontend.
Added a question to ask people if they want to swtich to the new frontend
from the dialog frontend. Not yet used.
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killed debug output
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Wed Mar 22 23:39:20 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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support backing up
TODO additions
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Lots of random fixes here and there.
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Wed Mar 22 22:20:57 2000 UTC
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Added text and note types to slang frontend, only multiselect is
unimplemented.
Started to use init methods wherever I can, with a lot of thrashing
resulting. The advanatge of init is it's a lot shorter and simpler to write
one than to properly set up a new() method that does the same thing.
All the slang elements were re-organized, so they all inherit from
Element::Slang, and create widgets in their init methods, rather than a
makewidget method. This necessitated changes to FrontEnd::Slang as well.
Checkpointing here while everything mostly works, next step is to convert
many more modules to use init rather than new.
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fixed some bugs
Added text to helpbar.
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Mon Mar 13 21:34:42 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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joey
* Made noninteractive select elements smarter. If the value is set, but
is set to something not on the list, disregard it and pick the first
element from the list. This is actually an important bugfix; it's been
causing problems with apt-setup in base-config, making
http.us.debian.org be incorrectly picked as the default when users try
to set up apt to use a country that just has one mirror on file.
* Closes #60160 (important)
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Tue Mar 7 05:12:54 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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* Added DEBIAN_PRIORITY for consitency.
* Text frontend now prompts you to hit return if text has been displayed
w/o a prompt. This is to prevent said text from running off the screen
during a dpkg run. To make this work, I had to add a shutdown method to
frontends, to be called before a frontend is destroyed.
* Denastified the object property references all over. I just hope I didn't
remove any direct accesses that were meant to be there (often a good
way to introduce infinite loops, so use this version with care..)
* Optimized the Text frontend's handling of resize events.
* Fixed a compile error in the specification, and actually installs the
spec's gif.
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Mon Mar 6 23:15:09 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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* Fixed noninteractive note element to not mark the item as seen if
/usr/bin/mail doesn't exist. (Oops)
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Wed Mar 1 19:39:26 2000 UTC
(13 years, 2 months ago)
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* Use fully-qualified path for dpkg-preconfigure in apt.conf,
Closes: #58469
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Wed Mar 1 01:12:07 2000 UTC
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* Removed quite obsolete exim samples. I don't want to maintain samples
anymore past those needed by the tutorial and a regression test script.
There is quite enough real debconf code out there.
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Wed Mar 1 00:20:55 2000 UTC
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* Corrected three ways badly written packages could make
dpkg-preconfigure die:
- They could try to ask questions that didn't exist.
- They could try to ask questions using garbage priority values.
- They could have garbage template files that lack required fields.
All three are now handled sanely, and debconf even tells the client
what stupid thing it has done in the first 2 cases. To make that work,
I made FrontEnd::add much simpler, and moved a lot of the failure-prone
code into Confmodule::command_input, and did some other
reorganizations.
* Checked and I don't think any more cases like this exist in debconf.
* While I was at it, I shut up messages about failing to make
noninteractive elements in debug 2 mode. A common FAQ causer.
* Added a Debian.bugtemplate file, in an attempt to get people to report
bugs that are actually useful. This is used by newer reportbug
packages.
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Tue Feb 29 21:17:37 2000 UTC
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* Fixed another stupid typo, that messed up text select and multiselect
elements sometimes.
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* Fixed a stupid typo introduced last version.
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Tue Feb 29 19:32:22 2000 UTC
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* Added --unseen-only switch to dpkg-reconfigure. This makes it only ask
questions that have not been asked before. Closes: #59260
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Mon Feb 28 21:28:45 2000 UTC
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joey
* When debconf or debconf-tiny is purged, the database is not deleted if
debconf or debconf-tiny is still installed. Closes: #59029
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Fri Feb 25 04:11:25 2000 UTC
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* word-wrap all text that is mailed at 75 columns, Closes: #58911
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Thu Feb 24 18:44:12 2000 UTC
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* Catch SIGPIPEs from confmodules and handle them. Closes: #58847, #58818
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Mon Feb 21 21:11:44 2000 UTC
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joey
* dpkg-reconfigure: Now forces priority to low when reconfiguring
packages. People have often complained that it should do this,
so it does now. Added a swtich to disable this behavior, which should be
used by eg, the boot floppies when it reconfigures base-config. Also,
re-wrote the switch parsing to match how it's done in dpkg-preconfigure.
* Removed lots of extortions to use -plow from docs.
* Bother. base.pm is not in perl-base. Added nasty code to fix this when
building debconf-tiny.
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Mon Feb 21 00:24:06 2000 UTC
(13 years, 3 months ago)
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* Copyright and url updates.
* dpkg-reconfigure: don't run the postrm of the package. Doing so breaks
things when for example, the package uses dpkg-divert and tries to
remove diversions in the postrm. This cannot be an isolated problem
either. This reverses the change made in version 0.2.52, which did not
say why I added it in the first place.. (suspicion: non-idempotent
postinst scripts may need the postrm to clean up after them before being
called again. However, such scripts are broken.)
Closes: #58527 (important bug)
* no changes; Closes: #58495 (I'm not going to add 3 lines of code bloat
to a package in base just to provide a marginally better error message.)
* Added --help to dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #58496
* Added more cautions about passwords to the tutorial.
* Text mode [multi]select elements now display in multiple columns. This is
experimental, and I don't know how it will interact with having support for
descriptions associated with items in the selection list, which is a todo
item.
* Use w3m again to format docs (how'd I lose that?)
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Thu Feb 17 20:13:19 2000 UTC
(13 years, 3 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed minor back problem in debconf's own config script, and some
documentation fixes.
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Mon Feb 14 19:57:56 2000 UTC
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joey
* dpkg-preconfigure: It turns out that the trick of reading from stdin
until EOF, then reading more later only works if stdin is a tty. When it
was running from apt, that wasn't so, and so it caused dialog to lock up,
in a tight loop, unable to read keypresses from stdin. The fix is
pretty simple; just open /dev/tty and connect STDIN to it after reading
the filelist from apt. Closes: #56518, #57771 (important bugs).
* Disabled dialog exclusion that was added in the last release.
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Sun Feb 13 09:23:33 2000 UTC
(13 years, 3 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not use Getopt::Long, so it will work even on
the base system it is now a part of.
* As a workaround for the dialog lock problem (which seems to be a dialog
bug), never use dialog for the text mode menus. Works around: #56518
(grave), #57771 (important)
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Sat Feb 12 11:18:54 2000 UTC
(13 years, 3 months ago)
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joey
* Use perl's "base" module throughout the code, cutting 2 lines from each
module. Due to a bug in the module, I had to throw lots of "use"'s back
in, in the case of child modules that had a name that just appeneded to
the name of their parent. I have filed a perlbug about that
(ID 20000212.001). These additions are marked "# perlbug" so I can grep
them back out later.
* Warning: I expect this release is very buggy. But that's why you're
tracking unstable, right?
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Thu Feb 10 03:52:29 2000 UTC
(13 years, 3 months ago)
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joey
* Add templates file, config script, postinst, and posrtm to debconf-tiny,
so debconf/priority actually exists. This is necessary so base-config
can change the priority if the boot-floppies were installed in verbose or
quiet mode. This is a critical bugfix, as it fixes a bug that made newly
installed systems unusable.
* Added dpkg-preconfigure to debconf-tiny, since this:
a) lets debconf-tiny use debconf's postinst unchanged
b) is useful in general to have in debconf-tiny
* Several k of bloat. Oh well..
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Wed Feb 9 08:07:13 2000 UTC
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* Corrected 2 typos, Closes: #57605
* Closes: #57607 -- already fixed.
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Wed Feb 9 04:58:23 2000 UTC
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* Fixed a typo I introduced earlier today.
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Wed Feb 9 04:25:10 2000 UTC
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* Fixed some uninitialized values related to multiselct questions with no
defaults.
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Tue Feb 8 22:44:12 2000 UTC
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* Added code to postinst to delete long-obsolete /etc/debconf.cfg
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Tue Feb 8 19:42:26 2000 UTC
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joey
* dpkg-reconfigure: detect perl confmodules properly, by making my regexp
match case in-sensitively. This fixes a bug that made dpkg-reconfigure
not work at all to reconfigure packages that used ConfModule.pm.
* dpkg-reconfigure: assume all config scripts are confmodules, it would be
pretty weird for one not to be, and this speeds things up a tiny bit.
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Tue Feb 8 07:50:16 2000 UTC
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* Installed workaround from Joel Klecker to fix the annoying termcap
warning from Term::Readline. This does not close these bugs, but it does
work around them: #47363, #50286, #50540, #51787, #52052, #53274, #55142,
#56987, and #46270
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Tue Feb 8 00:42:31 2000 UTC
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* Added checks for wrong number of parameters in all command_* subs in
ConfModule.pm. If the check fails, error 20 is returned (syntax error).
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Sat Jan 22 02:16:09 2000 UTC
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Merged from potato.
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merged potato changes
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Tue Jan 18 03:19:06 2000 UTC
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* Woops, I forgot to let the CLEAR command be executed in any of the
confmodule libraries!
* base-config needs that command, so this must go to frozen.
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Tue Jan 18 00:19:32 2000 UTC
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* Woops, I forgot to let the CLEAR command be executed in any of the
confmodule libraries!
* base-config needs that command, so this must go to frozen.
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Sun Jan 16 09:12:47 2000 UTC
(13 years, 4 months ago)
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* Re-enabled use of _ and . in template fields. Necessary for localaization.
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Sun Jan 16 06:08:16 2000 UTC
(13 years, 4 months ago)
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joey
* Corrected a bug in noninteractive select elements. Amoung other things,
this bug broke apt-setup in base-config (so it is a critical bug, yada,
yada). I believe this also Closes: #55036
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Sat Jan 15 23:05:17 2000 UTC
(13 years, 4 months ago)
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joey
* Switched over to using perl's setlocale() function to determine the
current locale. This means that locale aliases work, and that users
who have a locale like 'es_ES.ISO-8859-1' see all the es_ES messages.
* Added one level of locale fallback: for example, it looks for 'es'
messages too in the case above.
* I guess these changes are necessary to make debconf usable for people
who use locales, so this should _probably_ go into frozen.
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Sat Jan 15 04:46:38 2000 UTC
(13 years, 4 months ago)
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* Make dpkg-reconfigure work inside a base system that has no Getopt::Long.
This is critical to get into potato, because base-config has to be
dpkg-reconfigure'd on initial reboot to set the root password and so on.
* Really make dialog frontend default. I thought I did this 8 versions
back..
* Medium priority is now default.
* Probably fixed bug #55174, but who knows, I cannot reproduce it anyway.
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Thu Jan 13 22:34:42 2000 UTC
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* Renamed dpkg-preconfig to dpkg-preconfigure, for consistency.
Closes: #53893
* Moved dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure to /usr/sbin.
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Tue Jan 11 03:53:31 2000 UTC
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* Sped up and simplified language code.
* Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not re-show old questions when running in apt
mode (oops!)
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Tue Jan 11 00:06:55 2000 UTC
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joey
* '_' and '.' can now appear in fields names in templates. Necessary for
some localization.. If you use them in a field name, you had better
depend on this version; earlier ones will die if they see such a thing.
* Fixed a logic error that broke debconf if you had LC_ALL or LANG set,
Closes: #54615, #54638, #54655
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Sun Jan 9 02:52:16 2000 UTC
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joey
* Debconf is not yet internationalized itself, but the data it reads in
from templates now may be.
* Documented what else I need to do toward i18n in the TODO.
* Client::ConfModule detects newline in text it is going to send out,
and warns about them. This after the pain of debugging what a spare \n
can do to the protocol..
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Sat Jan 8 22:39:48 2000 UTC
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joey
* Documented DEBCONF_DEBUG, Closes: #54434
* Don't show "none of the above" choice in text frontend's select element.
It is only supposed to be in multiselect elements.
* A few more bug reports that were fixed 2 versions ago should be closed.
Closes: #54459, #54462, #54429, #54393, #54443, #54400
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Sat Jan 8 03:02:01 2000 UTC
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* When the back button is hit, clear the buffer of all questions.
Fixes some truely confusing behavior.
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Fri Jan 7 23:36:42 2000 UTC
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* Fixed type that was making a sbin file, Closes: #0.2.65
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Fri Jan 7 09:17:49 2000 UTC
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* Add dpkg-reconfigure to debconf-tiny.
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Fri Jan 7 07:28:22 2000 UTC
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joey
* Changed default frontend (again), back to the dialog frontend. I can't
really make my mind up on this, but my reasoning for using dialog is that
debconf-tiny is going to be used by several packages on a fresh install,
so the user is going to see some debconf dialog stuff right from the
start. Changing to text half-way through is liable to be confusing.
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Fri Jan 7 05:00:12 2000 UTC
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joey
* Removed apt-setup; it is in base-config now.
* Minor README change.
* Now build-depends on sgml-data, to follow the bouncing xml.dcl.
* In fact, I have to change things to use a new name and path for that
file too.
* Really fixed that typo.
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Fri Jan 7 04:41:20 2000 UTC
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Removed apt-setup.
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Thu Jan 6 19:54:02 2000 UTC
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* Typo fix, Closes: #54205
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Thu Jan 6 06:54:20 2000 UTC
(13 years, 4 months ago)
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joey
* When dpkg-preconfig is run from apt, it turns off showing of old
questions. That remains turned off until all preconfiguration is complete.
The effect is that you can now configure debconf to re-show old questions,
and not have to suffer through seeing all the old questions twice. If
you turned off showing of old questions because seeing questions twice was
annoying, you may want to turn it back on now.
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Sat Jan 1 00:19:07 2000 UTC
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joey
* Client/frontend: the templates filename guessing has been a bit broken
in one case. I've fixed that now, Closes: #53730. Happy GNU year!
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Thu Dec 23 20:53:43 1999 UTC
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* Don't use lib. Closes: #53316
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Tue Dec 21 23:13:18 1999 UTC
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joey
* Now just depends on perl-5.005-base (of sufficiently recent version),
since that package now contains everything I need. (Closes: #53186)
* Client/frontend: Look for templates in /usr/share/debconf/templates/
as well as the current directory. Useful for stadalone programs that
use debconf.
* Include apt-setup in debconf and debconf-tiny for now, since the base
system needs them available *now*. This is not the right long-term
location, though. Closes: #53187 (Adam, you want to run
"/usr/sbin/apt-setup probe")
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Tue Dec 21 00:59:40 1999 UTC
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* Tightened up the perl dependancies. I think the previous looser
dependancies might have caused a problem.
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Wed Dec 15 03:41:42 1999 UTC
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joey
* Depend on the version of fileutils that supported
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty, Closes: #52746 (should that bug really have
been grave? It could only be triggered if you installed debconf w/o
upgrading to potato fileutils, and then purged it.)
* Despite what the bug report says, the postinst has never ran rmdir.
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Mon Dec 13 21:44:34 1999 UTC
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* Added to the tutorial.
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Sat Dec 11 03:20:31 1999 UTC
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Update question text.
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Sat Dec 11 03:11:42 1999 UTC
(13 years, 5 months ago)
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joey
* In the dialog frontend, do not pass the default password to dialog. This
is a security hole, and besides it's very confusing since dialog doesn't
display the passowrd, and the user might inaverdently append to it.
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Sat Dec 11 00:12:27 1999 UTC
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joey
* "Cancel" (or hitting escape) in the dialog frontend is now interpreted
to mean back up a step. Not quite intuitive, but it is the bast thing I
can do with a cancel button, and I need the ability to backup.
Closes: #51887
* Reworked how question values are set. This is now done in FrontEnd::go(),
instead of in each Element's show() method.
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Mon Dec 6 23:11:17 1999 UTC
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joey
* Debconf install now asks if you want to preconfigure packages, and
if you answer no, does not add/removes call to dpkg-preconfig in apt.conf.
* Changed user's guide to match.
* dpkg-reconfigure runs the postrm now. It's also substantially smaller.
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Mon Dec 6 21:58:19 1999 UTC
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joey
* Made noninteractive frontend really silent. Closes: #51952
* Corrected debconf-tiny's conflicts.
* Autoselect can now have loops in the frontends it tries, it is smart
enough to break the loops. This lets the text frontend fallback to the
Dialog frontend. Since that is the only frontend in debconf-tiny,
this is required to make it use the dialog frontend.
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Mon Dec 6 08:02:29 1999 UTC
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COrrected debconf-tiny conflicts line.
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Sat Dec 4 20:59:25 1999 UTC
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* Needs a versioned debhelper dependency.
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Sat Dec 4 03:38:52 1999 UTC
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joey
* Build-Depends on docbook-stylesheets, which are needed to make the xml
docs be formatted decently.
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Thu Dec 2 21:17:11 1999 UTC
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joey
* Added comment to apt.conf that the line was added by debconf,
Closes: #51720
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Mon Nov 29 20:56:59 1999 UTC
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joey
* Element/Dialog/String.pm: Fixed a thinko that is causing the warning
messages reported in bug #51561.
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Sun Nov 28 05:08:22 1999 UTC
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joey
* Changed tutorial docs of version command. Clients are not stricly
required to pass a version number into it.
* Removed warning message if a client does not pass in a version,
Closes: #51431
* Added build dependancy info.
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Wed Nov 24 18:55:22 1999 UTC
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joey
* Discovered dialog's --separate-output parameter, and use it for
multiselect boxes, since it simplfies parsing.
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Tue Nov 23 23:51:23 1999 UTC
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removed 'master'
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Mon Nov 22 23:49:44 1999 UTC
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* w3m -dump works again, so use it.
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Sun Nov 21 22:09:51 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* dpkg-preconfig: modified regexp to work under perl 5.004
(Closes: #50854, #50880)
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Sun Nov 21 03:54:51 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Improved abbreviation finding algorythm for text select elements.
* Cleaned up the show method of Element::Text::Select.
* Element::Text::MultiSelect can now inherit from Element::Text::Select,
making it much shorter.
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Sat Nov 20 23:26:34 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Changed how text frontend's select element indicates which choice is
default. It can now indicate when numbers are the default. Closes: #50751
* Detect if libterm-readline-*-perl is being used. If so, allow
interactive editing of the default, since that is supported. If not,
display the default as part of the prompt. This makes things more
consistent overall.
* Added 'none of the above' option to [multi]select elements, so if you
don't have libterm-readline-*-perl, you can still override the default
and choose nothing. Unfortunatly, I still don't see a way to do that with
string input elements..
* Since w3m is currently broken, dump pages with lynx for now.
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Fri Nov 19 21:50:02 1999 UTC
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joey
* dpkg-preconfig: Do a basic dependancy check before attempting to
preconfigure a package. If the package depends on a newer version of
debconf than is installed, do not preconfigure. (Closes: #50411, #50236)
Should prevent any further breakages of the type we've seen before.
* doc/tutorial.xml: If you use the multiselect data type, you should depend
on debconf 0.2.26.
* Version.pm: Added, to store the debconf version.
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Thu Nov 18 00:03:12 1999 UTC
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* When processing what dialog returns after showing a multiselct, there
may be trailing space after the last double quote. Nodified to handle
that, Closes: #50471
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Wed Nov 17 22:57:55 1999 UTC
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* Client/frontend: be less aggressive when trying to guess a template
filename. Fixes sslwrap purge problem.
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Wed Nov 17 00:17:09 1999 UTC
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* I've been persuaded that the Text frontend is the best default for
new installs. This doesn't change the default for people who already
have debconf installed.
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Tue Nov 16 23:18:53 1999 UTC
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joey
* Update database files atomically, should fix the isolated empty db files
that have been reported twice now.
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Tue Nov 16 04:15:13 1999 UTC
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joey
* Fixed 3 bugs reports that will get filed in the next 36 hours. The
debconf bug betting pool is now open -- how many times will this be
reported now that it's been fixed? :-p
* Specifically, now that ConfModule doesn't send a return code for STOP,
frontends can't try to read such a return code, or they hang.
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Mon Nov 15 23:40:48 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Debconf scripts now automatically load their templates when they are
invoked manually, if the .templates file is present in the same directory.
* This makes debconf-loadtemplate basically obsolete, so I have removed it.
* This means there is no need for a special test.pl in the source package.
* And this also means it's now a lot easier to debug config scripts before
putting them in a package. Documented this in the tutorial.
* Feh, I have to keep the debconf-tiny changelog in sync with this one,
or the package version isn't updated. Debhelper is too smart for its
own good. Hacked around it. (If other people have this problem, I can
add a flag to debhelper to handle this better..)
* Documented everywhere that when reconfiguring debconf, --priority=medium
is a good idea. Closes: #50225
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Mon Nov 15 02:10:42 1999 UTC
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joey
* Added a debconf-tiny package, which is a very stripped down debconf to be
used on the base system. Debconf itself is 117+k, mainly because of all
the frontends and docs. To make debconf-tiny, I:
- removed all docs
- removed all frontends except dialog and noninteractive
- removed most stuff in /usr/bin
- stripped out all POD docs and regular comments from all perl modules
- All this got the package down to 27k compressed. 14k compressed of that
was this changelog (It's all the fault of long changelog entries like
this one!)
- So, I started a new changelog for debconf-tiny, in which I will record
changes specific to it. debconf-tiny is now 12k.
* Removed /etc from package.
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Sun Nov 14 22:07:34 1999 UTC
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joey
* Always returns "mulitselect" as one of it's capabilities now.
This was added because people need a way for their packages, when
preconfigured, to check to see if they have a new enough version of
debconf to ask a multiselect question.
* The better, long term fix is basic dependancy checking in
dpkg-preconfig, and that is now the top of my todo list.
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Sun Nov 14 04:05:32 1999 UTC
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joey
* STOP cannot return a success code, since in all likelyhood, the pipe it
would try to write it to is broken. (Closes: #49856, #49946)
* debug messages are now prioritized, DEBCONF_DEBUG can be set to 1 to see
some, 2 for more, etc.
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Sat Nov 13 10:14:00 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* dpkg-preconfig now clears it's progress meter when done, like apt
does now.
* Fixed a possible infinite recursion in the text frontend, if you
use it on an absurdly small screen. (It tried to display the title,
had to paginate it, went to display [More], and first decided
to display the title...)
* With doogie's help, simplified Client/confmodule a bit.
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Fri Nov 12 10:05:42 1999 UTC
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* Added a Debconf user's guide.
* Cleaned up the doc Makefile.
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Fri Nov 12 05:25:36 1999 UTC
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joey
* Corrected Client::ConfModule to return the right thing when one of its
functions is called in scalar context. It was returning the result code
by mistake, now it returns the value, like it is documented to do.
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Thu Nov 11 22:30:28 1999 UTC
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joey
* Added multiselect data type.
* Wrote input elements for this type for all frontends except the Gtk
frontend. The Gtk frontend needs a bit of a redesign before it can
handle this, I think.
* Made dpkg-preconfig properly accept -f and --frontend, Closes: #49920
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Thu Nov 11 01:21:32 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Removed gtk frontend from list of frontends. If you already have it
selected, you can continue using it, but I'm sick of people filing bugs
on it who didn't bother to read the note that said it had known problems
and should not be used.
* dpkg-reconfigure now doesn't do anything if it's told to reconfigure
packages that lack a config script. This makes it not fail on packages
that don't use debconf, though it is just a no-op with them.
Closes: #48190
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Wed Nov 10 23:56:51 1999 UTC
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joey
* Fixed the stty error messages, and screen size detection should work
again. For some reason I had to make stty use /dev/tty for stdin, plain
default stdin doesn't work when dpkg-preconfig is being run by apt.
* Change undefined values to '' when starting confmodules, Closes: #49797
* Fixed web frontend to never display empty forms.
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Wed Nov 10 23:03:46 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Added sane defaults if stty -a fails. (Closes: a whole slew of bug
reports people will file over the next 2 days. :-P)
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Wed Nov 10 06:07:55 1999 UTC
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* The noninteractive frontend now mails notes to root.
* Reworked the mechanism that makes select questions always set
their value when they are INPUT, even if they arn't really displayed,
to be much cleaner: This is now handled by the noninteractive select
element.
* Reworked how Elements are created to use eval, which kills the
duplicated makelement() code in all the FrontEnds.
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Wed Nov 10 00:55:58 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* frontend now works if run from something other than dpkg. Closes: #49449
* Created a new Tty frontend to serve as a base class for Dialog and Text.
It detects screen resizes. Made it the parent of Dialog and Text,
and they now also detect screen resizes. Debconf in a 30x5 xterm is
beautiful!
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Tue Nov 9 23:20:03 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Fixed the text frontend to not lower-case choices in a select list.
(Closes: #49650)
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Tue Nov 9 05:19:18 1999 UTC
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joey
* People just don't seem to get it -- NEVER use dh_input in a postinst!
Tightened up the language about that in the tutorial, and repeated my
self in several places in the hope people will read at least one of them.
* Eliminated use of Fcntl, one of the modules that made us depend on perl.
* Deleted the copy of the spec that was local to this document. The
configuration management spec is now available as an xml document, in
Debian CVS. For convenience, debconf includes that document now.
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Mon Nov 8 21:45:01 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Spelling fixes, Closes: #49587
* Documented on each man page that talks about --frontend, how the
frontend can be permanently changed. Closes: #49537
* Don't crash if told to remove a nonexistant question.
* Rationalized debug and warning message printing.
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Fri Nov 5 22:11:37 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* So it is possible to use debconf from the preinst of a package, after
all. Added sundry nasty hacks to make it work. (Also talked with BenC
and Wichert about doing this right in dpkg.)
* When a package is installed for the first time, the config script now
gets "" as its second parameter, as it should.
* ConfModule.pm now just execs a frontend, instead of turning into one. Not
quite as cool, but a lot easier to maintain.
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Fri Nov 5 20:10:06 1999 UTC
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* Made frontend fallback message less scary.
* Split the template data out of the main debconf database and into
templates.db. This reduces the chances of it getting corrupted.
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Thu Nov 4 20:57:37 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* The last changelog lies: it's actually not possible to do any debconf
stuff in a preinst. The templates arn't available then.
* Documented this, until someone comes up with a workaround.
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Wed Nov 3 23:38:39 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* I found that the currently installed version of the package was being
passed to the config script if the package was just installed with dpkg
and not preconfiged. Fixed.
* If a preinst sources confmodule, the config script will be run.
Needed for packages like ssh that need to ask questions before install
time always.
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Wed Nov 3 20:39:26 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Patchs from Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@ukai.org> to:
- fix typo that was breaking gtk frontend, Closes: #49074, #49076
- call set_locale so gtk frontend can display text in any language,
Closes: #49075
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Tue Nov 2 21:10:06 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* dpkg-preconfig is now more robust: If a config script fails, it
outputs an error message, but continues so as much as possible of the
install can still complete.
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Tue Nov 2 20:49:06 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Fixed spelling error, Closes: #49032, which was filed on base for
unfathomable reasons.
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Tue Nov 2 00:56:31 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* For some reason, jade was inserting ' ' into generated html, which
looks nasty in w3m. Fixed that, and also use w3m to dump html to text
now, so tables are legible.
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Mon Nov 1 23:44:26 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Squashed a ConfModule startup warning.
* Removed an implicit apt dependancy.
* _Really_ fixed problem with newline after owner. Tested and resteted
this time. Closes: #48450
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Mon Nov 1 19:56:15 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed xml stylesheet to include legalnotice.
* Fixed a stupid error that was making parameters never get passed into
confmodules. Closes: #48824, #48853
* Closes: 47458 (been fixed for a while)
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Mon Nov 1 05:33:51 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Select Elements are not shown if they have less than 2 choices. However,
for conistency, even if not shown, the value of the Question they represent
is changed as if they were shown.
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Sun Oct 31 21:19:44 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Expanded and fixed up the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule.2pm
man page. Closes: #48809
* Moved that man page to man section 3. Closes: #48810
* Corrected Question->value to return undef if there is no default set.
This Closes: #48829, and is the right thing to do. It does, however,
break slews of debconf code that never expected to get an undef there.
So I dug around and fixed it all, I think.
* Fixed entering of '0' into text box in dialog frontend, which was broken.
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Sun Oct 31 05:40:47 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Removed stupid debugging code. (oops)
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Sun Oct 31 05:32:50 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Just for Culus, sped up dpkg-preconfig by a factor of 3.
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Sun Oct 31 01:35:44 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy bug again.
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Sun Oct 31 00:25:36 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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joey
* Corrected debconf upgrade problem. If an old version of debconf
preconfig'd a newer version, the config script failed.
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Sat Oct 30 01:21:39 1999 UTC
(13 years, 6 months ago)
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* Confmodule.pm fixes I forgot in the last version.
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Fri Oct 29 23:01:45 1999 UTC
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by
joey
* Now uses version 2.0 of the configuration management protocol.
- All commands in the protocol now return a numerical return code,
optionally followed by a space and a text return code.
* confmodule is a new shell library that handles this by making each
command it provides now return the numerical return code. They continue
to set $RET to the text return code. This means that you now have to
check the return codes of those commands, or the set -e script you are
running them in may exit if they return an error code.
* confmodule.sh is now deprecated, but remains for backwards compatability,
and has special compatability code in it.
* ConfModule.pm handles this by making each of its commands, when called
in list contect, return a list consiting of the numeric return code, and
the string return code. When called in scalar context, it behaves
in a backwards compatable way.
* Deprecated the VISIBLE command. Check to see if INPUT returns 30 instead.
* Deprecated the EXIST command. Check for return code 10 from commands that
try to use the question, instead.
* The GO command no longer returns "back"; instead, it returns 30.
* Documented all this.
* Hey, a state machine is the way to go if you want to support back buttons!
Converted the tutorial to reccommend this, and converted debconf's own
config script into a state machine.
* Used tables in several places in the tutorial where they make sense.
* Split the actual working templates and code out of the tutorial, and put
it in the samples direcotry. It is included inline so it is still
available in the tutorial, but now I can also debug it and make sure it
works..
* Added the noninteractive frontend to the list of choices you get when
configuring debconf.
* If the text frontend fails (this can really happen, if you run debconf
w/o a controlling tty in an autobuilder, say), falls back to the
noninteractive frontend. (Closes: #48644)
* The web frontend now only accepts connections from localhost.
* The web and noninteractive frontends now print out text saying they are
running.
* If a frontend fails, the failure message is always printed, not just in
debug mode.
* Fixed checkboxes in the web frontend so if they are unchecked, this
fact is noted.
* Added debconf-loadtemplate to the .deb.
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This is a major new version, which changes the return codes of all commands.
It is not yet complete.
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* Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy problem.
* Fixed a problem with empty text input fields in the Dialog frontend
setting the value of the question back to default instead of to ''
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* Added a very important note to the tutorial.
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* In the dialog frontend, if a prompt is too big to fit on a dialog and
has to be slit up, it will now display just the extended description
in a dialog, and then display a new dialog with the short description
and the actual input element in it. This is intended to reduce confusion
when a user sees a question at the bottom of a dialog and an "Ok"
button beneath it -- that won't happen any more, and I think it's
ok to say this change Closes: #47644
* Reduced the amount of code in Dialog Elments a lot.
* Fixed yet another bug in dialog select box sizing. WIll they never end?
* Dialog select boxes no longer have numbered items. Looks better.
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* dpkg-preconfig: fixed so it chomps the package name, to prevent ugliness
like \n in the owners field. Closes: #48450
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* The dialog frontend can now use --passwordbox with both whiptail and
dialog, so I made that change. (Closes: #47196)
* Added a section to the tutorail on adding backup capabilities to config
scripts. (Closes: #47676)
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Changes on a plane. See changelog.
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* Fixed the web frontend to send a HTTP reponse header, patch from
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, Closes: #47937
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* s/newbie/politically_correct_language()/eg;
Closes: #47668
* With regards to the second part of that bug report: critical is first on
the list, and always has been, unless you are using the dialog frontend,
where I have to do nasty re-ordering to make the default be first. If
you want, file a seperate (wishlist) bug on this.
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Sun Oct 24 22:15:53 1999 UTC
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* Fixed a truely braindead problem in Container.pm, which was breaking
Select Elements a bit. (Closes: #47683)
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Tue Oct 12 21:09:34 1999 UTC
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* Applied patch from Rafael Laboissiere to add an "exists" command.
Be warned that this command is probably only temporary, I am looking
for a better solution. (Closes: #46927)
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Mon Oct 11 18:29:50 1999 UTC
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Work properly if there are > 26 choices.
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Sun Oct 10 01:14:54 1999 UTC
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* Fixed text fromtend boolean input element to return true if true is
the default. (Closes: #47049)
* Fixed tutorial typo. (Closes: #47050)
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Fri Oct 8 23:55:08 1999 UTC
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* Converted the tutorial and introduction to xml and docbook.
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Fri Oct 8 02:38:13 1999 UTC
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joey
* Guarded postinst code that modifies apt.conf to prevent dup entries.
* Started doing some cleanup of the gtk frontend:
- It no longer flashes the window up on the screen unless it really
has a question to ask this time around.
- Made cancel button work.
It still segfaults on exit though.
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Thu Oct 7 21:54:53 1999 UTC
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* Allowed confmodule.sh to be loaded twice. Closes: #46843
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Thu Oct 7 21:03:32 1999 UTC
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joey
* Patch from rafael@icp.inpg.fr (Rafael Laboissiere) to fix a perl warning,
Closes: #46871
* Another patch from Rafael to fix a mistake in the tutorial. Closes: #46873
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Thu Oct 7 11:24:43 1999 UTC
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joey
* Wrote a perl module dependancy grapher, and include output in the .deb
package. I need to clean up parts of the Element hierarchy. Running this
on all perl modules in /usr/lib/perl is amusing, too, though it needs
some more work to be of general utility. (And I suspect someone has
already written a better one I'm not aware of.)
* Made a new frontend -- the Noninteractive frontend.
* All objects in debconf now derive from a common base class, which saved
a few dozen lines of code at least.
* There is now only one ConfModule object, no more multiple derived
objects per FrontEnd type. To make this work, I had to move the capb
property into the FrontEnd.
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Minor fix.
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Thu Oct 7 09:19:27 1999 UTC
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* Reorganized some modules. No user-visible changes.
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Wed Oct 6 19:12:36 1999 UTC
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* Gtk frontend can use the newest gtk-perl to test whether opening the
display will work. Closes: #46736
* metaget'ing choices now returns a list. Fixes the other half of #46606.
* Select boxes that consist of one item are not displayed.
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Tue Oct 5 18:44:30 1999 UTC
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* Corrected db_text command in confmodule.sh, Closes: #46640
* Corrected typo in confmodule.3 man page, Closes: #46651
* Corrected whiptail window sizing problems, Closes: #46498, #46655
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Mon Oct 4 22:10:10 1999 UTC
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joey
* Debconf config scripts are now called with options. "configure" is
normally passed, "reconfigure" is passed if dpkg-reconfig is
reconfiguring the package. After that, the version of the package is
passed.
* dpkg-reconfigure will only work on packages that are fully installed.
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Mon Oct 4 19:35:05 1999 UTC
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* Corrected several errors with how the choices field is accessed.
(Closes: #46606)
* No longer parses the choices field at template load time. This is a
big change and might break stuff -- we'll see.
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Mon Oct 4 01:25:38 1999 UTC
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* Added a simple little progress report display to dpkg-preconfig so
when apt passes it 200 packages to be upgraded on a 386, it's clear
that something is actually going on.
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Mon Oct 4 00:23:17 1999 UTC
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* Quoted a few more bareword hash keys that were causing a perl warning. What
puzzles me is I cannot reproduce the warning at all.. (Closes: #46545)
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Fri Oct 1 22:08:05 1999 UTC
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* Doh -- I need to update to use debhelper's debconf support! :-)
* Gdialog only takes --defaultno options at the end. Dialog only takes
than at the beginning. Whiptail takes them either place. Argh. I've
changed to using the end for now, since I don't use dialog at all yet.
* Disambiguated {owners} in Question.pm, Closes: #46347
* Killed EXAMPLES out of the debian package.
* Flipped ordering of short and long descriptions in notes and text in the
dialog frontend; makes more sense this way.
* dpkg-reconfigure aborts if you arn't root.
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* Doh -- I need to update to use debhelper's debconf support! :-)
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Fri Oct 1 06:10:46 1999 UTC
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* Yesterday's changes to the choices field broke all select lists -- fixed.
* Added regression tests to TODO, it's clear I need them.
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Thu Sep 30 18:53:09 1999 UTC
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* Modified the README to refer to the locations of docs in the installed
.deb, rather than the tarball, now that most people are installing debs.
Closes: #46302.
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Wed Sep 29 23:44:27 1999 UTC
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* Added the metaget command. I did this mainly to let one get a list of
the owners of a question, though it might have other uses later.
* Substitutions now take effect on the choices field as well as the
description field.
* Put these two changes together and it's now possible to install several
related packages (ispell dictionaries, say), and get a list of what
dictionaries are available when the config scripts run, and only prompt
the user once for which one they want. Added a section to the tutorial
about this.
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Tue Sep 28 22:21:50 1999 UTC
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joey
* Fixed the problems with the purge command, which were really package
name guessing problems and some errors in the new purge code. BenC, it's
ready for you.
* Don't install frontend in /bin (Closes: #46149)
* Fixed a problem with interpretation of the set command. The second
parameter can have spaces in it.
* Added data-dumper dependancy, since some perl's don't include it.
(Closes: #46147)
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Tue Sep 28 06:28:03 1999 UTC
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don't install file in bin
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ENd of day commit. Not yet in release state.
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* Fixed a problem with Client::ConfModule.
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Mon Sep 27 22:46:06 1999 UTC
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* Applied patch from Peter Vreman <pfv@cooldown.demon.nl> to correct dialog
size guessing code. Did some additional fixes for whiptail.
(Closes: 46060)
* Fixed a really silly formatting bug in FrontEnd::Dialog that was
probably leading to what looked like corrupted displays for some people.
* When breaking a question up over multiple screens with dialog, it makes
sure to always show the short description when it actually prompts for
input. This is a lot less disorienting.
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Mon Sep 27 03:28:25 1999 UTC
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* gdialog will soon support --defaultno, added versionsed conflicts
with versions that don't, and support it again.
* ConfModule::new() doesn't take a confmodule to start anymore, I broke
that out into a separate function.
* AutoSelect only starts up the script if it's actually passed once. TRhis
should fix your problem, BenC.
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Mon Sep 27 01:05:16 1999 UTC
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* Hm, I know I fixed this before, but the fix seems to have been lost:
Fixed bug in the AutoSelect that was making it *always* try dialog
first, even if something else was picked. (Closes: #46020)
* Dialog has no --defaultno flag, which makes it unusable for debconf.
Oh, so does gdialog. I have submitted a patch for dialog, but for now
I have simply made debconf not accept dialog. If you don't have whiptail,
you get text mode. I also made the --defaultno flag be passed first,
which is how dialog will (eventually) support it. (Closes: #46047)
* Dialog frontend no longer clears the screen when running. Makes it
easier to get at debug messages. (Closes: #46048)
* dpkg-reconfigure was trashing ownerships, fixed.
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Sat Sep 25 04:25:19 1999 UTC
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joey
* Added password data type. Currently supported by the Text frontend
(though it has problems displaying right in an xterm), the Gtk frontend,
and the Web frontend (though you'd be insane to use it!).
* Fixed a nasty bug in the fallback code.
* Read-protected the debconf db directory.
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Fri Sep 24 23:00:37 1999 UTC
(13 years, 7 months ago)
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joey
* Fixed a problem if perl failed to configure and dpkg-preconfig then
bombed out on the next apt run, users would have an unusable apt and not
be able to fix their system. Now dpkg-preconfigure detects a broken perl
and exits sanely, allowing apt to continue and fix things.
(Closes: #45927)
* Fixed a dpkg-preconfig type introduced last version.
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Fri Sep 24 22:42:49 1999 UTC
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* Added fallback frontend support. If the frontend the user selects is not
available, or fails to initialize (say DISPLAY is unset for Gtk), it will
fall back intelligently to another frontend.
* This means debconf doesn't really depend on much at all except perl.
Moved most stuff to suggests.
* The Gtk frontend was dying in a way not catchable by eval (!!) if DISPLAY
was unset; added a fix to that so it falls back instead.
* Removed some dpkg-preconfig spam.
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Fri Sep 24 00:04:39 1999 UTC
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* Mappings. What good are they? None, that I could see, so I completely
removed them! This doesn't influence debconf's behavior at all, just
removes many lines of code and makes it all easier to understand.
* Added the concept that each question is owned by one or more packages.
When the number of owners goes to zero, the question is removed.
* Whenever a question is removed, I check to see if the template it used
is no longer used as well. If so, it's also removed.
* What this lets us do is it allows packages to get rid of questions and
templates they created when they are purged. And shared questions are
fully supported and won't go away until the last package that uses them
does.
* Added a "purge" command that accomplishes this easily. (You could of
course always call unregister by hand for each question, but this is
easier.)
* Modifed dpkg-preconfig so all the templates in all the packages that
are being installed are read first, and then all the config scripts are
run.
* The changes above have an intriguing side benefit that offers a fix to a
vexing problem. There is now a field in each question called "owners", that
is a comma and space delimited list of the packages that have registered
ownership. This list is up to date as soon as all the templates are
loaded if apt is used. A set of related packages can all provide the same
template in them; and their config scripts can then look at the owners
field to get the list of all related packages that is/will be installed.
Then they can do things like turn that into a list of choices of window
managers, or ispell dictionaries, etc, and prompt the user to pick one.
This feels only a little hackish, and the only problem with it is that if
they are not installing with apt, the list isn't fully complete until each
and every package has been installed.
* Fixed question default value code so it always inherits from the current
template, whatever that might be.
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I've been adding some ownership code to things, and I'm about to make a huge
change. Tagging this first so I can revert to it if necessary.
This checkin in not in a usable state!
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Wed Sep 22 22:50:34 1999 UTC
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* Fixed dpkg-reconfigure, whgich was broken since yesterday.
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Wed Sep 22 22:10:00 1999 UTC
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* Fixed template merge bug. This was making old descriptions show up
even if a new template with changed descriptions was loaded.
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Tue Sep 21 22:27:13 1999 UTC
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* Now it properly handles config scripts and postinsts that exit with
a return code, by propigating that return code up to dpkg.
* Killed dpkg-frnotend for good. It's in the Attic now only.
* In the dialog frontend, hitting cancel (or escape, maybe), will now
break out and cancel everything.
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Tue Sep 21 18:23:36 1999 UTC
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* Added "visible" command to tell if a question will be displayed.
Very useful for preventing some kinds of loops.
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Mon Sep 20 21:50:17 1999 UTC
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* Debhelper now supports debconf, amended turorial to note this.
* More spelling fixes.
* Added doc/namespace.ttx, which explains the variable namespace.
* First upload to unstable.
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Sun Sep 19 20:16:25 1999 UTC
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* Patch from James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> with:
- spelling corrections
- man page enhancements
- better debian/templates text
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Sun Sep 19 00:01:28 1999 UTC
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* Fixed a bug.
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* Added default title support.
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Sat Sep 18 21:20:26 1999 UTC
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joey
* Added a config script and templates for debconf itself. It uses
them to configure what frontend to use, etc. /etc/debconf.cfg is no
more.
* Modified Config.pm so it contains functions that return values,
not just hard coded values. The functions now try to pull values out of
the database, and fall back on the defaults. Also, environment
DEBIAN_FRONTEND always works for specifying a frontend now, overriding
all else.
* Changed a myriad of other files that use Config.pm to call the new
functions.
* The Priority module is no longer used to set priority, Config.pm can
handle that now.
* Added showold to Config.pm, you can always see old questions now, if
you like.
* Renamed the entire Line frontend to Text. Line really doesn't make as
much sense. If you're following long in CVS, I also probably broke your
repository again; a clean checkout is reccommended. Sorry.
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Sat Sep 18 19:57:35 1999 UTC
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Added debconf configuration config script. Enough configs?
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Sat Sep 18 19:49:43 1999 UTC
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Added debconf configuration template.
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Sat Sep 18 19:11:26 1999 UTC
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* Modified the dialog frontend. Short descriptions now appear after long,
instead of as dialog titles. The title appears as the dialo title, and
the background title is "Debian Configuration"
* Hm, that actually cleaned up the API a bit, I guess it was the right
thing to do.
* Fixed link.
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Sat Sep 18 01:05:35 1999 UTC
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* Force use of gnu readline perl library. The other one is too bad.
* dpkg-reconfigure allows you to configure it's frontend now.
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Sat Sep 18 00:53:46 1999 UTC
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* Fixed a typo in the tutorial, and expanded it some.
* Fixed the apt dependancy, which was on too low a version.
* Depend on whiptail || dialog || gnome-utils so some kind of dialog is
installed always.
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Fri Sep 17 00:20:48 1999 UTC
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joey
* All the sigchld counting and handling stuff was making debconf segfault
and making it fragile in various ways. Removed it. Instead, I have
modified update-menus to DTRT, and I depend on that version.
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Thu Sep 16 23:30:10 1999 UTC
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* Fixed Line::Boolean default stuff, last time, I hope.
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Thu Sep 16 19:38:39 1999 UTC
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* I had a truely nasty problem: when installing packages using the dialog
frontend, and using dpkg directly, debconf would segfault shortly after
the config script was run. It looks like this was due to reentrancy
problems in my sigchld handler and I think I've squashed it.
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Thu Sep 16 01:01:32 1999 UTC
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joey
* Expanded the tutorial, it's now a complete standalone document with
examples. <pant, pant>
* Oops, I never implemented the reset command! Fixed that.
* Oops, there are 2 different reset commands! Renamed one to clear,
contingent on Wichert's approval, and implemented the other as well.
* Removed dpkg-frontend from the binary package. I really don't want
people using it.
* Added pod docs for all Element files. Rather minimal right now.
* Tested the changes to Client::ConfModule; they work, but I have
occasional segfaults if using dialog.
* UI tewak to text boolean element.
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Wed Sep 15 22:44:33 1999 UTC
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* Expanded the tutorial, it's now a complete standalone document with
examples. <pant, pant>
* Oops, I never implemented the reset command! Fixed that.
* Oops, there are 2 different reset commands! Renamed one to clear,
contingent on Wichert's approval, and implemented the other as well.
* Removed dpkg-frontend from the binary package. I really don't want
people using it.
* Added pod docs for all Element files. Rather minimal right now.
* Tested the changes to Client::ConfModule; they work.
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Tue Sep 14 22:25:15 1999 UTC
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* Added COPYING file.
* Renamed README to EXAMPLES.
* Wrote a new README that just points to the other files.
* Wrote doc/INTRODUCTION, giving some history of how things
have worked, and why debconf is better.
* Suggests libterm-readline-gnu-perl, which is best for the Line
frontend.
* dpkg-preconfig uses the frontend specified in the conffile now.
* Element::Line::Boolean now uses the correct values as the default.
* FrontEnd::Line now actually displays titles.
* Client::ConfModule should now run the config script like confmodule.sh
does, for transparent installation of debconf packages. Needs testing.
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Tue Sep 14 19:47:10 1999 UTC
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* Got rid of the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable entirely. Instead,
/etc/debconf.cfg has a variable in it to specify the default frontend
to use.
* Also added a question priority variable to the config file.
* Oh yeah, the big change is I fixed the postinst hang bug. Or rather,
worked around it. The bug was caused by update-menus forking to
background and waiting, but not closing stdin/out. I worked around by
catching SIGCHLD's and closing the pipes from the other end when the
postinst has existed. I've also contacted Joost.
* This, barring a little bit of docs and a few packages built to use it,
is basically ready to be shown to the world.
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Mon Sep 13 22:50:37 1999 UTC
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* Got rid of the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable entirely. Instead,
/etc/debconf.cfg has a variable in it to specify the default frontend
to use.
* Also added a question priority variable to the config file.
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Mon Sep 13 22:30:35 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Broke the nasty perl code out of confmodule.sh, it's much cleaner now
(and you don't see a page long perl -e command in ps..)
* I now know exactly what's causing the hang problem -- update-menus!
I still have no clue why.
* Modified Client/frontend so it runs the config script of a package
if the script is available, every time. This is pretty ugly, but it has
a very nice effect: when you dpkg -i a brand new debconfed .deb, the
config script runs as soon as the postinst tries to use debconf, and
this lets you configure it, and then it is installed. So you don't have
to dpkg-preconfig it first. Of course, if you're using apt, it is
preconfiged, and then the config script is run again, redundantly (but
doesn't do anything since it's already run). This is basically the last
workaround needed for dpkg not preconfiguring stuff on it's own -- now
debconf use is completly transparent.
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Fri Sep 10 22:12:33 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Don't use dh_link, so it can still build on va.
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Fri Sep 10 21:47:32 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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Fri Sep 10 21:45:32 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Gtk::FrontEnd now has the xpm it uses inlined into the file.
* /etc/debconf.cfg now holds configurable debconf settings. Config.pm is
just a link to it now.
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Fri Sep 10 01:56:14 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Gtk::FrontEnd now has the xpm it uses inlined into the file.
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Thu Sep 9 23:59:02 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
by
joey
* dpkg-reconfigure now sets a flag in FrontEnd::Base that makes old
questions be shown as well. This is very nice for reconfiguring stuff..
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Thu Sep 9 23:08:14 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Added db_set command to confmodule.sh
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Thu Sep 9 21:55:03 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
* Uh oh. "set" is a shell builtin, so you cannot access the set command
via the shell interface. After talking with Sean, I've decided to just
prefix all the commands in the shell interface with "db_". So dh_set,
db_get, etc. Most packages that use debconf thus need to be changed.
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Thu Sep 9 21:13:56 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
by
joey
* Back after a one month hiatus. I've moved debconf around in my cvs
repository, though the debconf module name should still work.
* Debconf is now FHS compliant.
* Removed some junk from the Makefile I no longer need.
* Added doc/packages-prompt, just a list of some packages that need to be
modified.
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Thu Sep 9 19:11:40 1999 UTC
(13 years, 8 months ago)
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joey
Ok, I'm back.
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Sun Aug 8 23:17:28 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
by
joey
* Question->value now returns the default field if value is unset (thanks,
AJ)
* Various minor touchups everywhere.
* Killed slrn sample, this is going into the main slrn package and is
already significently better in there.
* Added Element/Gtk/*, from AJ.
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Thu Aug 5 23:14:57 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
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joey
* Added beginnings of GTK frontend by AJ.
* Began moving the docs from internals.txt into POD documentation. It was
getting out of sync with the code, this will prevent that. Only Elements
still need to be converted.
* Fixed unset bug in confmodule.sh
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Wed Aug 4 21:42:58 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
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joey
Random changes.
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Mon Aug 2 23:05:38 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
by
joey
* Patch from AJ that:
- makes Questions inherit properties direct from their associated
Templates. This simplifies a lot of code which no longer needs to
use $question->template->foo.
- implements STOP command in protocol.
- dies on unknown questions instead of failing obscurely later.
- removes bashism
- misc fixes and updates to cvs.config.
- adds template substitution support and the SUBST command.
- makes template parsing work better WRT the extended description and
actually look for dots on thier own lines, not lines starting with dot.
* Minor mods to above patch.
* Documented template substitutions in the draft spec.
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Sat Jul 31 08:04:10 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
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joey
foo changes
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Sat Jul 31 07:57:51 1999 UTC
(13 years, 9 months ago)
by
joey
* Got rid of the NOTE and TEXT commands; notes and text are now put on
templates. This breaks any packages already using debconf (again).
* The above change made it clear I needed to reorganize the Elements --
each data type is now a seperate object type. The code is much simpler
now!
* While I was doing that, it became possible to make the base ConfModule
handle command_input in a general way. Much duplicate code removed.
* Modified clients for above changes.
* Modified samples and docs for above changes.
* Made the postrm not fail during error unwind.
* Picky Sean fixes..
* Added support for isdefault flag. Now you only see a question once.
* Added support for the FGET and FSET commands. (untested)
* The mappings file is no more. All questions on a template will now have
mappings made for them. If you need others, use the commands to make them.
* Added a new program, dpkg-reconfigure. Use it to reconfigure an already
installed package.
* Added Client/confmodule.sh. This is very similar to Client::ConfModule
except it's a shell library.
* Changed cvs.config to use confmodule.sh. It's _much_ easier to read now.
* Copyright updates. VA has sponsored and is at least a partial owner of
this code. It's still GPL'd, of course.
* Fixed a bug in the web frontend -- if a page is empty now because all
questions are too low priotity, it just skips it.
* Fixed a nasty template merge bug.
* Added a doc/spec/ directory and put a copy of the metadata section of
the spec in there, converted to html and greatly expanded to match
reality. This is a draft that I want to get accepted as the real spec.
* Changed to using "string" as the data type for text data, had been using
"text". This is a pretty big change, really and breaks all packages that
have been built so far that use debconf. Have to do it to comply with
the spec.
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Thu Jul 15 22:42:32 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
by
joey
* dpkg-preconfig (and test.pl) now load up only the COnfModules and
FrontEnds that will really be used. Faster startup time.
* TODO updates.
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Thu Jul 15 21:55:27 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
oops.
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Thu Jul 15 21:33:16 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
Added postinst.
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Thu Jul 15 21:31:26 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
by
joey
* dpkg-preconfig now has a --apt option that makes it read debs to configure on stdin. This is for use with apt of course. (A hacked apt that can use this exists now.) * Dialog frontend only clears the screen just before displaying a non-gdialog dialog box. * Depend on the version of apt that really works with debconf. * A postinst and postrm modify /etc/apt/apt.conf to make apt use dpkg-preconfig to configure packages. (The file's not actually part of apt, so this is not too evil).
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Thu Jul 15 03:58:23 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
* Moved CREDITS to doc/. * Install internals.txt in .deb. * doc/maintainer.txt is a guide for maintainers who want to convert packages to use debconf.
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Thu Jul 15 00:49:30 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
* Killed the cvs date stuff. Too much bother.
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Thu Jul 15 00:45:40 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
* Fix from AJ for the problem with Line frontend not coming up with unique letters. * Gdialog support, from AJ.
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Thu Jul 15 00:09:28 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
* In preparation for daily cvs builds, set the version number to the date. * Makefile fixes. And more Makefile fixes.
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Thu Jul 15 00:08:19 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '
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Thu Jul 15 00:06:14 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '
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Wed Jul 14 23:58:08 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
killed dh_link, tyring to build this on va.debian.org
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Wed Jul 14 23:54:22 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
* Use prefix=debian/tmp. Putting pwd in there tickles some kind of xargs
buffer overrun problem.
* Other minor changes.
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Wed Jul 14 23:04:08 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
oops, arch all, not any.
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Tue Jul 13 00:04:33 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
by
joey
Clear out database on purge.
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Thu Jul 8 23:03:12 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
updated copyright
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Thu Jul 8 22:49:30 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
changelog change
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Thu Jul 8 22:08:27 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
by
joey
make pod into man
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Thu Jul 8 21:29:40 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
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joey
Killed client. Debianized.
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Thu Jul 8 21:16:43 1999 UTC
(13 years, 10 months ago)
by
joey
Renamed client to CLient for consitency.
