I would like to apologize for hijacking this mailing list, I didn't realize it would be quite so off topic. I was having trouble finding the answer in all the usual places.
After almost writing a response, I've almost found the answer (haven't tested it yet) by searching for: postfix debconf-set-selections Good luck to others that need this. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > 06.07.2010 20:58, Phil Howard wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:27, Isaac Witmer <isaa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm doing a custom install, and one of the packages in the install is >>> postfix. >>> Each time, it prompts me to select "no configuration" "Local use" etc. >>> just after the package has been downloaded and right before it has >>> been installed. (similar to the screen that shows up when you're asked >>> to accept the sun-java6 license) >>> >>> I need a way to dodge it. Any ideas? >> >> The package comes with two or more pre-packaged configurations to make >> it ready to go. Why not just use "no configuration" and later apply >> your own configuration. >> >> If you are trying to bypass the interactiveness of it so you don't get >> stopped at that choice, maybe you need an expect script (I've used >> pexpect with Python for various things, and was thinking of using it >> for this, too). > > This is becoming more and more off-topic for Postfix mailing list... > > there's debconf-set-selections command in Debian that is especially > designed to pre-set answers to dpkg questions for non-interactive > installations. There's no need to re-invent the wheel, it is here > for a long time already and is working quite well. What you need > is to install a package(s) in question on a test system and look > at the debconf items of your interest. The raw data is stored > in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. > > But again, this has nothing to do with postfix, it's 100% debian > question. In particular, read about how to do some non-interactive > package installs in this distribution. > > /mjt >
