On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote: JH >* Use the Pipe driver in conjunction with a regular database and a JH > database stack to make debconf read in values on stdin at startup to JH > override whatever's in the file. JH >
Also you can use Pipe driver with debconf-copydb tools to insert new values into debconfd database.... For example I write small script as hook for apt (pre-install). This script process list of installed packages, and run for each package - "wget http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/config?id=myid&package=${pkg} | \ debconf-copydb pipe writedb --config=Name:pipe --config=Driver:Pipe
