Scott Barker wrote: > Excellent. Hopefully if debconf gets folded into the base system, dpkg itself > will be able to run this directly, rather than it be an extra step for the > user. For example, instead of running (manually, or through apt): > > dpkg -i <package> > dpkg-reconfigure > > you could just run: > > dpkg -i --reconfigure <package> > > I'm probably thinking too far ahead right now, though...
Not really. I named it dpkg-reconfigure for a reason. :-) > How do you feel about moving the template file out of the debian/ control > structure, and into the filesystem? If it was /etc/debconf/<package> instead > of debian/templates, dpkg-repack could handle it (and I could start > repackaging packages for use in my labs). Oh, that's not the problem. Dpkg-repack should pick up that file fine. What it won't pick up is the actual answers you've given to the questions, which are stored in some debconf db somewhere. -- see shy jo
