Re: Info about dtxtdb

[David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>]

Hello Eduardo,

On Fri, Dec 12 1997 10:21 +0100 Eduardo Diaz TSC writes:
> I was wondering about an aplication that could provide automatic
> answers to the questions of the instalation scripts... Is dtxtdb
> what I was thinking of? 

Sort of. I.e. not at the moment. If you think at something which simply
replays a given set of answers the second to nth time after giving instructions
the first time: no. Then you'll probably want to use expect or something 
like that.

dtxtdb is meant as a repository for configuration values, which could be
stored by the package. This means that the package maintainer would have
to write something like the following code in his postinst:

if <I can find the value in the dtxtdb's database> then
  <use it>
else
  <ask the user for the value, validate it, and use it>
fi

> Where can I find the info about it?

At the moment there is only the manpage in the package (which is 
project/experimental).

David


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