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| v0lksman | trying to learn by updating an existing package. I'm a little lost with a package.postinst script where it says if [$1=configure] where is this triggered? how do I know if configure is being passed in or not? is this run with dpkg-reconfigure? | 17:19 |
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| v0lksman | what I'd really like to do is this: a package gets installed, then it checks some things on the system (IP, Hostname) and sets the config file for that package automatically | 17:20 |
| Lasall | you want probably debconf | 17:21 |
| v0lksman | bit more detail in the paste: http://dpaste.com/772243/ | 17:22 |
| v0lksman | Lasall: I think I am using debconf | 17:23 |
| Lasall | yes you do | 17:23 |
| Lasall | see for possible ways of calling maintainer scripts: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-mscriptsinstact v0lksman | 17:25 |
| Lasall | you should also look at sed -e | 17:27 |
| Lasall | v0lksman: do you have a debian/config file? | 17:27 |
| v0lksman | doesn't appear to no | 17:28 |
| v0lksman | there is a debian/conf dir | 17:29 |
| Lasall | in your debian/config file you do the debconf requests | 17:29 |
| Lasall | and in debian/postinst file you work with those values | 17:29 |
| v0lksman | hrm...that doesn't seem to be the case with this package at all | 17:30 |
| v0lksman | (again this is someone else package that I've just grabbed the source and want to tweak) | 17:30 |
| Lasall | debconf templates exist? | 17:31 |
| v0lksman | there is a templates folder with some templates in there | 17:31 |
| Lasall | is the package available somewhere? | 17:32 |
| v0lksman | https://launchpad.net/~h.tims/+archive/upstream-experimental | 17:32 |
| v0lksman | and specifically I want to customize the zabbix-agent pacakge | 17:33 |
| Lasall | it takes long to build... v0lksman: what exactly is the problem? | 17:42 |
| Lasall | does the debconf question not appear? | 17:42 |
| Lasall | its priority is medium | 17:42 |
| Lasall | so check it with: debconf-show debconf | 17:42 |
| Lasall | v0lksman: which value has debconf/priority key? | 17:43 |
| v0lksman | Lasall: wow..yeah wasn't expecting you to build it. | 17:46 |
| v0lksman | especially not that ppa as that one works (sorta) | 17:46 |
| v0lksman | it doesn't ask the server question though | 17:47 |
| Lasall | the system debconf priority level is important | 17:48 |
| Lasall | I suppose yours is "high" | 17:48 |
| v0lksman | no I haven't modified that at all | 17:50 |
| Lasall | I don't know what the standard value is. it is 'medium' ? | 17:50 |
| v0lksman | where do you run debconf-show from? | 17:50 |
| Lasall | shell | 17:50 |
| v0lksman | yeah but from a particular dir or something? | 17:51 |
| Lasall | no | 17:51 |
| Lasall | sry | 17:51 |
| v0lksman | ahh...so it tells me that debconf/priority: high | 17:51 |
| Lasall | yeah | 17:51 |
| Lasall | thats it | 17:51 |
| v0lksman | right? meaning that I need to set my question to high in order for it to be asked? | 17:51 |
| Lasall | you can run dpkg-reconfigure --priority medium PACKAGE | 17:52 |
| v0lksman | gotcha! | 17:52 |
| v0lksman | ok. so when I run dpkg-reconfigure without it does ask me the one question about server IP | 17:52 |
| Lasall | or you can set system level lower by reconfigure debconf itself | 17:52 |
| v0lksman | ok...so all this is good info... | 17:53 |
| v0lksman | so back to postinst. it runs when either --install or --configure are called. in my testing it seems that on install --configure is not sent as an arg as the if condition in the postinst is never run. Is this acurate? | 18:00 |
| v0lksman | http://dpaste.com/772243/ <- top script | 18:01 |
| v0lksman | line 11 | 18:01 |
| v0lksman | is there a way to test to see how the debconf stuff will behave before building? | 18:05 |
| Lasall | v0lksman: yes: try: DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg-command | 18:21 |
| Lasall | v0lksman: parameters passed to config file are not '--param', it's 'param' only. e.g. 'configure' | 18:23 |
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| Teester | Hi. I wish to submit a new package for inclusion in Ubuntu 12.10. I've read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages, which suggests inquiring here. The package is a Help Lens, being worked on at https://launchpad.net/askubuntu-lens | 22:22 |
| ajmitch | Teester: it was on my todo list, along with about 150 other things | 22:34 |
| ajmitch | it's not entirely accurate having them listed as scopes when each data source appears to have its own lens, is it? | 22:34 |
| Teester | ajmitch: What do you mean? | 22:35 |
| ajmitch | each scope seems to have its own daemon & registers as a lens on dbus | 22:36 |
| Teester | Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? Each scope is a separate daemon, providing results to be displayed in the same lens? | 22:39 |
| ajmitch | I'm probably just misreading what you had, I only looked at it really briefly | 22:40 |
| ajmitch | ok, nevermind my comments, I'm just not reading things right | 22:42 |
| Teester | The branch builds several subpackages - one for yelp results, one for askubuntu, one for manpages etc, so that they can be installed or uninstalled separately if you want. | 22:42 |
| Teester | Is there anything else I need to do to help progress with this? | 22:42 |
| ajmitch | wait for me or someone else to look over & test it? | 22:43 |
| Teester | Ok. Do you need a bug files or anything to track that? | 22:44 |
| ajmitch | not really | 22:44 |
| ajmitch | it's not feature freeze yet, unless someone forgot to tell me | 22:44 |
| Teester | Ok. I'll wait to hear what happens, so. :-) | 22:45 |
| ajmitch | I know jcastro will probably be pinging me soon to make sure I get it in :P | 22:46 |
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