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 -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ or in front of a mirror /
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