Michael Shields writes ("Re: Proposal: Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts"): ... > Directly? I'm not sure what format would be both fast and > human-editable. What if there were a tool to export to text and > reimport?
If a directly-editable format is too slow (which may well be the case), then we can use a cache file. That means you have to write out the relevant files of the directly-editable format whenever a change is made, but that hardly seems onerous. > I'd also very much like the ability to have a script preload the > database. For example, virtually every machine here, servers and > workstations alike, has the same settings for mail handling, DNS > servers, NTP servers, &c. I'd like to, as part of the setup for a new > machine, preload all those settings so that they are ready when the > packages get installed. Absolutely. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]