Validating user input with debconf

Hello mentors I have the following question: I want to validate user input while configuring the package and if user provides incorrect input - reprompt question until valid value is provided. Is it a good practice to do that with debconf? If it is - where should I do this ? In config script? P

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Debconf, package.config script and subst+multiselect

Dear mentors, As I've understood from debconf(7): - package config script runs twice during the deb installation As a result: - package config script must be idempotent and must not/should not ask questions twice. As I understand,I should control not asking question twice by checking if retur

Re: Starting services after installing a package

You need to make your package be depend (predepend?) on uwsgi and Apache and trigger them on postinst 'configure' and prerm 'remove' Best regards, Yurii Oleynikov > 19 февр. 2015 г., в 19:59, Jose Guerrero написал(а): > > Hi everyone! > > I am packaging a django app and I would like that afte