Re: debconf-set-selection - default wordlist/ispell values ignored?

Hello again

I have been looking more into the problem now and it seems that its not =

the dictionaries-common package that is the problem itself. Another =

dependencie that is installed is the wamerican package, and it is when =

this package is configured that the select default wordlist whiptail =

prompt is presented, the isntallation of the dictionaries-common package =

itself doesnt prompt for anything when the default-wordlist option is =

preseeded.

As far as i can tell, upon installation of the wamerican package it =

calls /usr/share/dictionaries-common/dc-debconf-select.pl this script =

and I assume this is the reason for the prompt. I couldnt find any =

option in debconf-get-selections to preseed this in any way.

Any ideas?

regards
Ingard

Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:52:12PM +0200, Ingard Mev=E5g wrote:
>   =

>> Hello
>>
>> Im trying to configure cfengine to automatically install a server with a =

>> specific app. This app depends on dictionaries-common among other =

>> things. I have preseeded configuration of a few other packages, but the =

>> dictionaries-common seems not to care about my preseeded settings.
>>
>> The settings i am trying to preseed are the following:
>>
>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/default-wordlist select american =

>> (American English)
>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value note   =

>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message =

>> note   =

>> dictionaries-common =

>> dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default note   =

>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict boolean true
>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/default-ispell select american =

>> (American English)
>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link boolean true
>> dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link boolean =

>> false
>>
>> However, I will still get a question box asking about which wordlist and =

>> ispell i would like to set as default. Is this somehow a bug or is it =

>> some preseeding option that is lacking?
>>     =

>
> dictionaries-common should honour LANG envvar (if present along with
> "/etc/default/locale") or debconf debian-installer/language otherwise. So
> if your installation is done under any of both conditions with the matchi=
ng
> values you should not need any pre-seeding.
>
> Otherwise, if on first installation a pre-seeded value is found, a message
> like one of
>  =

> Info: $question is already set to [$oldvalue]. Preserving it.
> Warning: $question is already set to [$oldvalue]. Not setting to [$value]
>
> should be given (with appropriate substitutions) and new value ignored.
> Did you see any of those messages when configuring dictionaries-common?
> Is interesting to know that before going into a deeper debugging.
>
> By the way you only need to preseed 'dictionaries-common/default-wordlist'
> and 'dictionaries-common/default-ispell'. It is unlikely that the other
> questions are asked.
>
> Note also that the first time, dictionaries-common, wordlists and ispell
> dicts should be installed in the same run.
>
> If that does not help you can try to do the installation with
>
> DICT_COMMON_DEBUG=3D1
>
> and record STDERR output.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>   =