Hi, sorry for top posting, I'm on mobile.
can you please try to look at virtualbox-ext-pack and see if it fits your needs? It is a package that downloads stuff from the internet after showing you a license and asking to accept it. cheers, G. ------------------------------ Il lun 10 ago 2015 01:15 CEST, Yurkao ha scritto: >Hello mentors > >I have the following question: I want to validate user input while configuring >the package and if user provides incorrect input - reprompt question until >valid value is provided. >Is it a good practice to do that with debconf? >If it is - where should I do this ? >In config script? >Postinst? > >The naive asnwer is: prompt user in config script until user provides valid >input. > >This would work fine, but on the other hand the debconf frontend could be non >interactive. In this case, if wrong answer was preseeded, looping really >doesn't help - because debconf just spinning in the loop without getting any >input from user. > >Any ideas/suggestions for correct solution? > > >Best regards, >Yurii Oleynikov > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >Archive: >https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1439189394.81485.bpmail_high_carr...@web171802.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
