On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, VALETTE Eric wrote: > I have been discussing quite a lot on different debian mailing list on a > way to automate debian installation. The final and almost unfiform > answer was to use debconf in non-interactive mode. > > The technical reason is that due to use of tty the following command > does not work : > > dpkg -i pakace << EOF > input1 > input2 > EOF >... > So far the following packages do not follow the rule : > 1) lilo, > 2) wu-ftpd, > 3) php4-* pacakges, > 4) bind
5) exim (our default MTA) ... > So could the debian policy regarding package postinst script ask either > to use debconf for automatic install or at least provide a mean to user > to answer question asked by postinst script to be entered via scripts or > files but no typing required. > > Thanks for any comment and sorry if that has already been discussed. I will support a proposal that every interaction with the user a package makes with the user during installation must be done using debconf. But this is a post-woody thing. cu Adrian -- Get my GPG key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg --import Fingerprint: B29C E71E FE19 6755 5C8A 84D4 99FC EA98 4F12 B400
