Eliminate nagging at installation time?
Hi there,
I'm sure that topic has been brought up several times before or is even
being worked on somewhere r actively discussed on one of the many lists,
but after the experience yesterday, I just have to cry out loud:
Is there no way to have installations of a large nmber of packages to be
completed without interaction? I just wanted to upgrade a older system from
hamm to slink. About everything in the process goes automatically and works
fine, but once the dpkg starts installing and setting up the packages yo
have to sit in front of the machine to answer a stupid question every
minute. You can't leave the room without knowing that the installation
process will soon hang again.
How about eliminating interactivity completely from postinst $ Co.? The
package should just choose the way that will cause the least harm and put a
message into a log which is less-ed automatically at the end of the process.
In that log, only really important messages should go, so the user knows it
is a good idea going through them. It does not need to show what has gone OK.
Wrinting to that log should be handled about as carefully as interaction i
handled right now.
In that log you would find messages like
"/etc/someconfig" has changed, put new version in "/etc/someconfig.dpkg-dist"
or
<package> has not been configured yet. Run ... before use.
and alike. That would also give a much better alternative for warnings.
Right now, warnings within postinst & Co. either need a <Return> (How
annoying!) or they get lost in the large number of messages.
Now, flame me if you like to, I just *had* to shout it out loud ... :-)
Ciao,
Nobbi
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