Hello,
I am helping write a GUI APT frontend and we wanted to add proper
conffile support, preferably be providing our own GUI alert with the
possible actions. I had realized that the best way to do that would be
to add an option to DPKG that allows a custom program to be specified to
be used instead of the default prompt when replacing conffiles. In
src/configure.c, the function deferred_configure_conffiles() calls
promptconfaction(). promptconfaction() runs the function show_prompt()
and parses the result. My patch will modify promptconfaction() to
execute an external program and parse the result of that instead of the
show_prompt() function. However before I started writing anything I
wanted to know if this is something that could be upstreamed, and if you
have any ways to improve this idea.
Thank you,
Cameron Katri
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Cameron Katri
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