Re: Thoughts regarding package installation
'Christoph Lameter wrote:'
>
>On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
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>liw>> 2. There are too many questions when upgrading packages.
>liw>
>liw>I agree with this as well. It's sometimes unavoidable, I
>liw>think (how do you decide what the hostname of a system is,
>liw>since you can't use a fixed default when installing on a live
>liw>network?), but it would be good to be able to do things more
>liw>automatically. Especially when installing Debian on a lot of
>liw>identical computers at once. It would be a good idea to be
>liw>able to install Debian once, and then copy the answers to the
>liw>new machines.
>There should be no questions when UPGRADING unless absolutely necessary. I
>am not talking about the initial installation.
Errgh, it would be /nice/ if I could install, for example,
/etc/default/* from an already installed machine before running dselect
and then letting dselect run without /any/ interactivity! This should
be possible with Lars' cfgtool and updating all the package maintenance
scripts to use it (checking if a current configuration exists before
asking any questions).
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