Re: Info about dtxtdb

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

Hi Eduardo,

> Would it be a better idea to make an aplication (lets call it debask)
> that would make the questions to the user or fetch the answers from
> a database? That way, the instalation policy could be set in a menu 
> of dselect (Something like: "Configuration from: Remote database/Local
> database/User") and the maintainer only use a call to "debask"
> 
> debask base Question "Should I use shadow passwords?" Y N...
> 
> That would tell debask to place a Question for the package base, with 
> that text, and those posible answers. 
> 
> This colud allow an administrator to install the base system, chose a 
> selection (or a predefined selection), tell dselect to ask to a central
> database for the answers and just press enter. :-) Nice, isn´t it?  I 
> administer a group of > 100 machines. Most of them under debian, and the 
> rest are UltraSparc with Slowaris. A centralized system for the instalati
on
> would be of GREAT help for me.

Sure, you're right. This is really a good idea. The next step beyond
dtxtdb would be a set of utilities (debask for the console, a tool
for X11, ...) which would present these messages to the user.

We had a discussion some time about this. What was the consesus?

David


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