Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-07 Thread VALETTE Eric
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily >> > (lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do >> > is to improve debconf, not try to for

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-06 Thread VALETTE Eric
Adrian Bunk wrote: 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 s

Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-05 Thread VALETTE Eric
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 <