Re: custom branding and CDDs
|| On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:58:48 +0200
|| Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org> wrote:
>> Anyway, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that every body is trying to avoid
>> handling configuration files and usually they are the best place to do this
>> kind of things... i.e. what happens if the branding has nothing to do with
>> files (like variables that indicate colors or names or whatever)?
jcgs> Then you have two options:
jcgs> - Make maintainer use debconf, and preseed debconf datatabase. This has
jcgs> the problem that right now there isn't any way to ensure that the
jcgs> preseeding will be done (unless at d-i installation time), as dpkg
jcgs> doesn't assure you that packages will be configure in order.
We are trying to found a good way to deal with it and currently we
have two proposed ways:
Include in control file a field like:
Preseed: true
and then, on dpkg-preconfigure, deal with it and do all preseed needed
before call config files for debconf and;
Include a file called DEBIAN/preseed on .deb package which will be
looked if debconf was configured to do it and use all this values
before do the config.
Both ways solves the problem and currently I think the first is best
since is more clear. What all think about?
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