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Re: Bundling .debs



On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:49, Matthieu Delahaye wrote:

> All the installation process is managed by FAI [1] (available on Woody) and 
> is good enough for our needs. And perhaps for yours.

I've never looked at fai, but I understand it's mainly a installation
tool. How much does it deal with updates and keeping the computers up to
date?

> The main problem we had and that is not solved by the solution proposed
> above is about packages which are not using debconf. Exim is an example.

As discussed in the 'Make debconf mandatory' thread, this problem has
been partly solved by Petter Reinholdtsen by modifying the packages. I
really do hope that policy will be changed in that direction!

cheers
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