Bob Hilliard wrote: > I would like to use debconf to present a message to the admin > when a package is installed, but only if certain text does not > appear in a config file. > > Without debconf, I could use code something like this in the > [post|pre]inst: > > if !grep -q include /etc/dictd.conf > then > [Display message] > fi > > I can't find anything in the debconf documentation or the command > available in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/debconf_specification.txt.gz > that would permit this type of conditional display of a message. Is > there something in the debconf documentation that I'm missing?
Well you can do the same exact thing with debconf. -- see shy jo
