Re: Interactive installation [was Re: Caldera installation...]
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 13:05:26 -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I believe that all installation scripts are indeed that, right?
Not quite.
zensunni ray 19:20 /var/lib/dpkg/info > file *.{pre,post}* | grep -v script
libreadlineg2.postinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> In that case, we could label them with stylized comments at the beginning
> or the end:
This would be a start.
> Just trying to suggest a possible mechanism.
I was thinking more of having new scripts {pre,post}{inst,rm}-ni for
non-interactive.
IIRC, Wichert has given this type of issue a lot of thought for his
configuration management proposals too. We'd better look those up first...
Ray
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