Re: nslcd config and debconf

["Vasiliy Molostov" <molostoff [at] gmail.com>]

I am very sorry for disturbance again, since "external" auth fix committed  
there is only a question still unclear:

dpkg-reconfigure and debconf in relation to nslcd parameters.

> > Btw, using debconf-set-selections and using dpkg-reconfigure isnot a  
> > supported way to update the configuration because the current 
> > configuration is always read from the configuration file in order to
> > preserve configuration changes outside debconf. The only situationwhere  
> > preseeding would work is on initial installation when the configuration  
> > file is absent.

I am not sure that me is correct by 100%, but I have discovered the  
following:

initial installation is handled by preinstall script. dpkg-reconfigure  
treats updated debconf db parameter as a point to upgrade configuration  
file, so if I choose to upgrade package with new config, it will be  
upgraded with parameters set in debconf db and will overwrite the  
configuration file with new content. I dont understand why configuration  
file should be parsed to overwrite debconf (e.g. preserve) db, if these  
parameters was already set previously (e.g. non-empty).

I am not in sure, but I think you have some point to argument, that will  
help me to understand how these parameters should indeed work  
successfully, and I'll very thankful for this help.


Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> писал(а) в своём письме Tue, 09  
Oct 2012 00:18:50 +0400:

> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 20:43 +0400, Василий Молостов wrote:
> > I was unable to find a place to report a bug in ubuntu repos (nslcd
> > belongs to universe, and not a part of ubuntu), and if some can point
> > out a good link, it wold be very helpful to report bug more
> > "officially".
>
> I saw that you reported it in Launchpad [0] which is fine, I'll follow
> up there.
>
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063923


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