here's a neat search tool I just learned about:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

lets you search packages by their conternts.

going there, and searching for

*dpkg-reconfigure shows the packages that contain it.  it liiks like you're
looking for debconf or maybe cdebconf.  configure-debian looks like another
hit that may take this a step further. *

*Eric*


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:29 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert, one thing I have been kind of  wondering that perhaps I should
> know( which I do not ). What is the package that hmm I do not really know
> how to describe it . . . ok like if you issue the command;
>
> *dpkg-reconfigure dash*
>>
>
> or tzdata, or whatever else package wise. On a normal PC you get kind of a
> 8 color console "interface"  with yes on one side no on the other whcih
> highlight when you use arrow keys or tab. Which package is this ? I know
> the default "configuration screen" for bare-fs is teletype. BUt I was
> wondering the name of this package, and how much does it add to the image
> size ?
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:13 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I should point out however, at least last time I checked that bare-fs
>> does
>> > not come with openssh-server as I kind of hinted at above. So you will
>> need
>> > access to the serial debug terminal at least to install a ssh server .
>> . .
>>
>> Yeah, i took out everything not required to run "dpkg/apt-get" so it's
>> pretty bare. ;)
>>
>> In the process i found out dpkg relies on a huge perl package. As
>> that's about the biggest package in that image.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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