On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:26:32PM +0200, VALETTE Eric wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > >>It should be possible to do > >> > >>dpkg -i pkg.deb <<EOF > >>value1 > >>value2 > >>... > >>valuen > >>EOF > >> > > > > No it should not, that is completely the wrong way to do it. That > > is just a hack to work around debconf not working properly for you > > or packages not using it yet. > > I disagree. Debconf will never be able to answer anything that I want > and that is not default. If debconf is able to handle default value > correctly, I will then need to use dpkg-reconfigure to change the > default value. I want to make it non interactively. Other solution is to > not install the packages that need special configuration and install > them using dpkg -i and a way tio give the values I want.
No, the correct solution is to pre-seed the debconf database with the answers you want. I'm not sure if there are tools to do this yet. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
