Le Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 01:44:43PM +0100, Ian Jackson écrivait: > In Debian, running the postinst script _is_ configuring the package. > If you want to install a package but not to configure it, use > dpkg --unpack.
Yes, my first mail had no sense if we consider it that way... let me explain a bit more. Actually the package is configured when the postinst successfully ran. Well. But in the postinst we can do 2 sorts of things : - automatic job that don't need user intervention (setting up account, compiling some stuff (ie for latex), creating symlinks, or whatever) that will probably act on files that are not in /etc. - configuration job : in that part we may be able to ask questions an to interactively create file in /etc. And it's the second part that we want to change in order to allow non-interactive installation. But if we do not clearly separate the first part from the second the only way of non-interactive install will be to use the configuration database. If we can separate it, we'll be able to have different way of non-interactive installation like the one I mentionned : - first unpack and launch the first-part of postinst (that must be non-interactive) - then do not launch the second part but simply copy /etc from a machine that would be the model. => this is really not standardized and may not be a good solution but it may also be simpler than to create a registry with all the configuration. But if separating these jobs will break older dpkg and create too many complications, then consider this idea as bad. Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël ¤ 0C4CABF1 ¤ http://www.mygale.org/~hra/
