Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades
On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 17:46:44 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 06:20:55PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> >Quoting Raymond Burkholder (ray@oneunified.net):
> >> > > So, as an accommodation, a flag in the preseed mechanism to
> >> > enable/disable would be helpful.
> >> >
> >> > You mean something like:
> >> >
> >> > Template: pkgsel/update-policy
> >> > Type: select
> >> > Default: unattended-upgrades
> >> >
> >> > pkgsel/update-policy=none thus seem the perfect preseed choice for your
> >> > use case.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes, thank you, that works for me.
> >>
> >> Is there a dictionary somewhere where I can look these things up? From
> >> where did you get your Template extract?
> >
> >No, there is no such dictionary. Sadly, documenting all possible
> >presseding options really lacks a dedicated effort. There was one, in
> >the past, when the D-I team was much bigger, and, still the
> >Installation Guiide does document the most important options, but
> >those that have been "recently" added ("recentlly" means "last years")
> >shoudl be added there.
> >
> >I got the template extract....from the package source itself (pkgsel
> >package, here).
>
> As a trivial lookup, sources.debian.net will show all the template
> files in Debian:
>
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Template%3A+path%3Adebian%2F.*.template
>
> but it's a large set in just sid: ("761 files grepped (4453 results)")...
apt-extracttemplates is a useful utility in apt-utils. For a set of
udebs
apt-extracttemplates -t $PWD *.udeb
will extract any templates files in the udebs.
rm *.config.*
deletes unneeded files.
All that is needed for a "dictionary" is to tidy up the templates files.
Perhaps
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed#Preseeding_and_the_installer.27s_debconf_templates
helps?
--
Brian.
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