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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-04-26 03:51:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-05-04 04:39:28 +0200 |
| commit | 6675001502ece8e72c8b3853a76a9b248b91b295 (patch) | |
| tree | bec65fe753ecf2400dde526f3b8f2435d5cf6d64 | |
| parent | 80556f6590b4b2da3aaf14f5a27c1555b36f11a1 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-6675001502ece8e72c8b3853a76a9b248b91b295.tar.gz | |
dpkg: Print the environment variables setup for the conffile shell
Make these variables more discoverable by printing them as a list
before spawning the conffile shell.
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/configure.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index f2a2ee0e6..1c45c41c5 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium options. * Make dpkg-buildpackage validate OpenPGP signing key IDs length. Error out for short key IDs and warn for long key IDs. + * On the dpkg conffile prompt, print the set of environment variables setup + for the conffile shell, for easier discoverability. * Architecture support: - Add support for riscv64 CPU. Closes: #822914 Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org> diff --git a/src/configure.c b/src/configure.c index 3c565c61d..211663c18 100644 --- a/src/configure.c +++ b/src/configure.c @@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ spawn_shell(const char *confold, const char *confnew) { pid_t pid; + fputs(_("Useful environment variables:\n"), stderr); + fputs(" - DPKG_SHELL_REASON\n", stderr); + fputs(" - DPKG_CONFFILE_OLD\n", stderr); + fputs(" - DPKG_CONFFILE_NEW\n", stderr); fputs(_("Type 'exit' when you're done.\n"), stderr); pid = subproc_fork(); |