Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michel Kaempf wrote: On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed between the packages config file and what the difference to your config is? I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michel Kaempf wrote: On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed between the packages config file and what the difference to your config is? I

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-25 Thread Illo de' Illis
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:24:33PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: I'm working on an automatic installation tool. It as almost working. I will post more information in the following days. The basic idea is to record automatically all the answers given during the first installation and retrieve

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Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-25 Thread Michel Kaempf
On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed between the packages config file and what the difference to your config is? I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally haven't changed those files dpkg askes me about.

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-25 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Michel Kaempf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed between the packages config file and what the difference to your config is? I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-24 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Illo de' Illis wrote: On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote: Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would source the install-response file, creating the variables with the responses they need. At this point, it's just as if they've

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
tony mancill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the developers: On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at installation time, e.g. NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE, and have the maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not? If this variable were set

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote: [snip] On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at installation time, e.g. NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE, and have the maintainer scripts check this to see if they

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ... Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and make changes according to the responses. Instead of

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ... Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and make

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mass-installing Debian

1999-05-21 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Bryan wrote: Illo de' Illis wrote: On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote: Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would source the install-response file, creating the variables with the responses they need. At this point, it's just as

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Bryan Andersen
Illo de' Illis wrote: On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote: Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would source the install-response file, creating the variables with the responses they need. At this point, it's just as if they've asked

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Jens Ritter
Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ... Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and make changes according to the responses. Instead of

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote: [snip] On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at installation time, e.g. NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE, and have the maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not? If this variable

mass-installing Debian

1999-05-19 Thread Dean Carpenter
I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ... Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and make changes according to the responses. Instead of that, we need a general service script that

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-19 Thread tony mancill
On 19 May 1999, Dean Carpenter wrote: I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ... Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and make changes according to the responses. Instead of

Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-19 Thread Illo de' Illis
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote: Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would source the install-response file, creating the variables with the responses they need. At this point, it's just as if they've asked the questions and retrieved