Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> > The annoying thing about the password prompting is that if you do it
> > cleanly and prompt for the passwords in the config script, then set them
> > in the postinst, there is a window where debconf writes them to disk. So
> > base-config does it all in the config script,
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:52:46AM +, Joey Hess wrote:
> The annoying thing about the password prompting is that if you do it
> cleanly and prompt for the passwords in the config script, then set them
> in the postinst, there is a window where debconf writes them to disk. So
> base-config does
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:53:01PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'll get back to you if I need you to do this. Maybe we'll come up with
> > something else (for debian-installer at least) that doesn't require
> > pcmcia to be removed.
>
> Note that it sh
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:51:50PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> > > user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> >
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:53:01PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'll get back to you if I need you to do this. Maybe we'll come up with
> something else (for debian-installer at least) that doesn't require
> pcmcia to be removed.
Note that it should be fairly easy to only install pcmcia stuff if nec
Brian Mays wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
> > any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed debian
> > system boots up, to do (using debconf[1]). So the various bits of
> > base-config r
Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> > user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> > if Ben is willing. After that I'd be happy to unload the apt setup
>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> if Ben is willing. After that I'd be happy to unload the apt setup
> stuff, and the rest of the l
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
> any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed debian
> system boots up, to do (using debconf[1]). So the various bits of
> base-config really belong in other packages
I've just uploaded base-config 0.50, which should close all known
RC bugs. That is just the beginning of what I want to do with the
package for woody though.
Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed deb
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