Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian
Scott Barker wrote:
> 2) I think I presented this suggestion backwards. According to debconf's docs,
> a user will be prompted for the answer to a question only if they haven't
> already answered that question, and only new questions will be presented.
> I'm suggesting there be a way for a user to over-ride this behaviour and
> completely reconfigure a package if they want. Am I still missing something
> in the docs? Is this already possible?
It's now possible in two ways. First, there is the dpkg-reconfigure program,
which you pass a package name, and it lets you see all the questions again.
Secondly, it's now possible to configure debconf to show all questions over
and over every time, even if you've already ansered them.
> 3) I see I missed the substitution capability during my first read of the
> docs. Sorry about that. But the rest of this suggestion is still valid, in
> that I'm looking for a way to repackage a package with whatever new
> defaults I want. Again, this may not be related directly to debconf, but
> perhaps needs to be implemented in dpkg-repack.
dpkg-repack couldn't currently handle this, and I'd have to modify it to
know about debconf for it to be able to.
A better approach, perhaps, will be to use the remote database capabilities
of debconf to just pull settings off the old system when you install a
package on the new one. Of course, that's all vaporware at this point.
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