Previously Mitch Blevins wrote: > 1) The downloader - > This is the user who gets his/her updates over the Net and just wants > to be able to run apt-get, then go to a movie, and come back with > everything done, except for the few configuration questions that > need answering. For this user, having the configuration done before > installation doesn't make sense because the package won't be there > until after the download, which would split the upgrade into two cycles. Indeed. Configuring before downloading is impossible for various reasons. You can do two things: either configure before the package is unpacked, or after it is installed. I would prefer the first for various reasons: you can make decisions on the preinst if needed and you can configure everything once and install simultaniously on multiple machines. With a cluster you then get: / -- <machine 1 installs> DOWNLOAD <wait1> CONFIGURE --|---- <machine 2 installs> \ -- <machine 3 installs> > -Mitch > (who is proud to now have posted 100% of the traffic to this list > for the month of December) Not for me, I copied all earlier messages on this topic to this folder :) Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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