Previously Joey Hess wrote: > 1. Run config script under debconf before running postinst script of > package, passing in appropriate arguments. /usr/bin/debconf takes a > script to run under debconf and arguments to pass to the script as > parameters, and this is what it was designed for.
Right. > 2. Somehow work out which regular maintainer scripts expect to > communicate with debconf, and run them under /usr/bin/debconf. [..] > This would probably be best implemented as a new control file > field, something like "Debconf-MaintScript: postinst postrm" That sounds like a decent approach. > 3. Add a new status field or state so that dpkg can track which packages > have had their config script run already (and which version of it) and > skip re-running the config script. This would merely cut down on > duplicate runs of the idempotent config scripts when a package is > preconfigured before dpkg runs. We will also need a new error state, config-failed Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wiggy.net/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
