Re: Confused by the different handling of debconf questions when using dpkg-reconfigure

When installing it should only to ask questions, that are necessary to 
run the software. dpkg-reconfigure assumes that you realy want to 
configure it, which is why it's asking you every question, regardless of 
priority.
Am 12.07.2011 11:54, schrieb Emmanuel Kasper:
> Am 2011-07-12 11:43, schrieb Thomas Goirand:
>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>>> Hello
>>> I notice that when I install postfix, it asks me then a couple of
>>> questions using debconf, and create then a default configuration file
>>> using my answers.
>>>
>>> If I call now `dpkg-reconfigure postfix` debconf asks me the same
>>> questions PLUS a bunch of new questions which I did not have in the
>>> first in the first place.   I find it confusing.
>>>
>>> Is i a bug, a feature, am I missing something ?
>>>
>>> Manu
>>
>> That's because of the debconf priority level. Do:
>>
>> dpkg-reconfigure debconf
>>
>> and you can set the debconf priority to low to have
>> all the questions, always. Note that Debconf can
>> also be set to non-interactive mode...
>
> yes this is clear, I was just wondering why does debconf use a different
> different sets of question ( hence maybe a different priority level ) in
> pre-install phase versus calling dpkg-reconfigure later
>
>