On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, VALETTE Eric wrote:
I have been discussing quite a lot on different debian mailing list on a
way to automate debian installation. The final and almost unfiform
answer was to use debconf in non-interactive mode.
The technical reason is that due to use of tty the following
Adrian Bunk wrote:
So could the debian policy regarding package postinst script ask either
to use debconf for automatic install or at least provide a mean to user
to answer question asked by postinst script to be entered via scripts or
files but no typing required.
Thanks for any comment and
Hrm, meant to send this to the lists. Oops.
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:28:36AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, VALETTE Eric wrote:
So far the following packages do not follow the rule :
1) lilo,
2) wu-ftpd,
3) php4-* pacakges,
4) bind
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
...
If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily
(lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do
is to improve debconf, not try to force everyone to make their packages
worse.
...
Which of these cases is
* Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011206 03:29]:
I will support a proposal that every interaction with the user a package
makes with the user during installation must be done using debconf. But
this is a post-woody thing.
I also am willing to fight and scream for something like this
post-woody.
Anthony Towns wrote:
If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily
(lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do
is to improve debconf, not try to force everyone to make their packages
worse.
IIRC, the problem with lilo and debconf had little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Bunk) writes:
So far the following packages do not follow the rule :
4) bind
For what it's worth, yesterday's upload of bind 8.2.5 eliminated the one
remaining guaranteed pause for interaction on install, so it's no longer a
problem. The bind9 packages
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily
(lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do
is to improve debconf, not try to force everyone
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