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Package: debconf,cdebconf

The questions with type "select" are not supposed to be used in the way
partman uses it. They doesn't allow to choose among repeated entries.
This causes problems when two partitions are so similar that partman
prints two equal lines for them - typicaly two partitions with same
size and same number on two disks with equal geometry or RAID or LVM
volumes.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:17PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:

I thought I had seen more recent reports of #241785.

Have you seen #263046? I don't know if it's the same bug, but it's
similar.

Finaly I understand what happens. I am afraid that all ways to fix this
bug will uglyfy the main screen of partman:

IDE1 master - Seagate U Series 40810 (40.0 GB)
hda3 primary 2.1 GB B F ext3 /usr
a pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
hda6 logical 3.6 GB
hda5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
hda8 logical 19.9 GB K ext2 /home
IDE2 master - Maxtor 6Y4L0 (14.4 GB)
hdc5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
b pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
LVM VG probgr, LV home - 4.2 MB
probgr/home 4.2 MB reiserfs

Without this the lines for hda5 and hdc5 will be equal as well as the
lines for the free spaces.

Anton Zinoviev


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Anton Zinoviev wrote:

Package: debconf,cdebconf

The questions with type "select" are not supposed to be used in the way partman uses it. They doesn't allow to choose among repeated entries.
This causes problems when two partitions are so similar that partman
prints two equal lines for them - typicaly two partitions with same
size and same number on two disks with equal geometry or RAID or LVM
volumes.

If you really wanted to you could possibly use cdebconf's transled list features to provide an "english translation" that uses the same text for
items while being backed by a real list that uses unique lines for
everything. I don't know if that would work, it probably depend's in the implementation, and possibly on the frontend (this would be impossible
to do with debconf's dialog frontend, for instance). I doubt you'll get
better support from either debconf.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:17PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:

I thought I had seen more recent reports of #241785.

Have you seen #263046? I don't know if it's the same bug, but it's
similar.

Finaly I understand what happens. I am afraid that all ways to fix this
bug will uglyfy the main screen of partman:

IDE1 master - Seagate U Series 40810 (40.0 GB)
hda3 primary 2.1 GB B F ext3 /usr
a pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
hda6 logical 3.6 GB
hda5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
hda8 logical 19.9 GB K ext2 /home
IDE2 master - Maxtor 6Y4L0 (14.4 GB)
hdc5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
b pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
LVM VG probgr, LV home - 4.2 MB
probgr/home 4.2 MB reiserfs

Without this the lines for hda5 and hdc5 will be equal as well as the
lines for the free spaces.

Have you considered just bringing the "hda" down to the free space
line?

hda3 primary 2.1 GB B F ext3 /usr
hda pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
hda6 logical 3.6 GB
hda5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
hda8 logical 19.9 GB K ext2 /home
IDE2 master - Maxtor 6Y4L0 (14.4 GB)
hdc5 logical 10.0 GB ext3
hdc pri/log 4.4 GB FREE SPACE
LVM VG probgr, LV home - 4.2 MB
probgr/home 4.2 MB reiserfs

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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:22:56PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:

If you really wanted to you could possibly use cdebconf's transled list features to provide an "english translation" that uses the same text for items while being backed by a real list that uses unique lines for everything. I don't know if that would work, it probably depend's in the implementation, and possibly on the frontend (this would be impossible
to do with debconf's dialog frontend, for instance).

We don't know how many items are necessary (how many partitions there
are). Or maybe I don't know this feature well.

I doubt you'll get better support from either debconf.

It would be enough if besides $RET there is another variable holding the
number of the chosen choice. I don't know how this relates with the
debconf protocol.

Have you considered just bringing the "hda" down to the free space
line?

This is not necessarily unique, but hda-1, hda-2 are possible.

Anton Zinoviev



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