Hi Reiner, On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:40:50PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to solve bug #561324 which uses it's own binary in the config > script. > > It uses it's own binary to get some information (tunnel id) which uses > login+password to retrieve, it really needs this to compile a good > config script (if you have more than 1 tunnel). > > My idea on solving this is to move the complete config script to > postinst and ask all the question there. > I read everywhere that this is not the preferred way to go but I can't > discover if it is prohibited by the policy. > > Is it prohibited by the policy to ask questions in the postinst-script?
Nop. > Does somebody know a better way of solving this? You can use debconf for that. Take a look at the documentation available in debconf-doc package. Regards, -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz http://tiagovaz.org 0xA504FECA - http://pgp.mit.edu
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