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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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* In preparation for daily cvs builds, set the version number to the date. * Makefile fixes. And more Makefile fixes.
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