Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Sandro Dentella wrote: >> hi, >> >> I'm preparing a package that is meant to setup a PDC with ldap and samba >> mainly for schools. The target that will use it is fairly anaware of most >> of the quantity of things that should be configured in such a setup and I >> don't mean to explain more than necessary. >> >> My package (isi-ldap3) depends on a veriety of other packages (pkg1, >> pkg2...) that place questions via debconf, so I thought to fill debconf >> variable (of pkgN) via a package isi-ldap3-pre) that should place very >> simple questions and take decision that I consider "difficoult" for my >> target (super?)user. >> [...] > Depends is sufficient for you; Policy 7.2: > > | `Depends' > | This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be > | configured unless all of the packages listed in its > | `Depends' field have been correctly configured.
I don't think this is sufficient for the purpose. What he wants is to create a package A-pre that is configured earlier than all packages B,C,D, where B,C,D are the packages A depends on. I don't have an idea how this could be done. The only alternative I see is to tell the people "install A-pre first, then install A which will pull in B,C,D"; or to create a script in A-pre that will ask the debconf questions and then ask "You must install A,B,C and D for this to have an effect. Proceed" and run apt-get install A B C D. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
