Have you looked at debconf at all? Because.. Scott Barker wrote: > 1) Separate interactive and non-interactive installation scripts. I suggest > that the current debian install scripts should contain *only* > non-interative functionality, such as running ldconfig, update-rc.d, etc. > *All* interactive functionality should be moved into a separate config > script.
This is what debconf does. > 2) Add one more level of configuration to debconf: configure new parameters. > This would help immensely when upgrading clusters of workstations. An > administrator can be notified of all configuration changes when upgrading a > package on one workstation, but once the values of those parameters have > been set on that workstation, other workstations can inherit them during > their upgrades without prompting. This is in the spec, although not yet implemented. -- see shy jo
