Re: mass-installing Debian
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote:
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> On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not?
> If this variable were set to TRUE, I'd like to see packages which require
> configuration send mail to root with a message like:
Somone a while ago suggested allowing the user to automatically answer all
of the "overwrite existing file? [N/y]" that dpkg asks when the config file
changes in the packge. Just getting rid of these messages would get rid of
quite a few.
Personally I _always_ keep the current one. Then every now and again I go
through /etc and merge in any changes.
Adrian
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