Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

[Scott Barker <scott@mostlylinux.ab.ca>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Not really. I named it dpkg-reconfigure for a reason. :-)

Excellent! :)

> Oh, that's not the problem. Dpkg-repack should pick up that file fine. What
> it won't pick up is the actual answers you've given to the questions, which
> are stored in some debconf db somewhere.

It's probably anathema to suggest, but what if there was a utility that could
export the data from the debconf db back into the template file? I know that
would be a terrible hack, and would fiddle with the dpkg files, which we're
not supposed to do, but if the only purpose is for an administrator to be able
to use dpkg-repack, I think it should be ok.

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