On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> I'm writing a script to install several packages using "dpkg -i" on
> several machines and I'd like to set this up where it can be performed
> unattended.
>
> Some of the packages ask some questions during their installation
> and I was wondering if there was some way I could pass them the answers
> I'd like to use so they can go on and do their thing without any
> further care and feeding.....the answeres will be the same every time for
> this purpose.
As far as I remember there were several approaches:
. make all read routines a wrapper that looks up the answer in
a database.
Pro: The administrator could pre-specify the answers in this
database ensuring that other machines get the proper setup
Con: One needs to maintain such a database, autogenerate or
whatelse
. Let dpkg provide a variable DPKG_NON_INTERACTIVE if called with
an additional switch --non-interactive and ensure that all
installation scripts use pre-defined default values and don't
query the user.
Pro: easy to implement
every maintainer may easily define appropriate defaults
Con: needs addition to dpkg and dselect
I'm sure there are more proposals but I don't recall them. I'd
appreciate if we could implement such a mechanism.
Regards,
Joey
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