Re: Configuration management and packages
On Jul 27, Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org> wrote:
>> What about adding a --dont-configure flag to dpkg until we will have
>> all other things needed? That should be trivial.
>You can't force dpkg to tell scripts not to prompt.. Doing that is
I want to force it to not execute postinst scripts. That should save
some time at installation time.
BTW, I think dpkg could kill scripts that prompt the user.
This is just a random idea, anyway.
>> FQDNs
>> IP addresses (IPv4 and/or IPv6)
>> email addresses
>What's wrong with using strings for that? Everywhere you use them a
With my proposal we can check input for formal correctness. Why not?
>string can also be used. Then just have the config-module from the
>package validate the IP address. That way you can also enforce
We would have to duplicate the code and do the checks later.
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ciao,
Marco
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