Non-interactive installs [Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade]
On Sat, Jan 3 1998 17:38 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
> Christian Schwarz wrote:
> [Immediate-Configure: Yes field]
[...]
> An Immediate-Configure field will help with 2, but I think there is a
> better solution. If there is a way to specify that a package's
> postinst is _not interactive_, then dpkg can attempt to configure
> those packages right away; there is no reason not to try. (If
> dependencies are not satisfied, it can try again after all packages
> have been unpacked.)
[This discussion belongs probably to debian-policy]
As Roberto already pointed out on debian-policy, a clever solution would
be to make the postinst non-interactive _in general_. If then a program
wouldn't have a postconfigure file it could be configured right away.
David
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