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Re: ITP: debwrap



On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 01:45:27AM +0900, Atsushi KAMOSHIDA wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I intent to package 'debwrap'.
> 
> 'debwrap' is a wrapper program for dpkg/apt-get, which reply questions
> of each package described in {pre,post}-inst scripts.
> 
> The mechanism of debwrap is that debwrap executes the
> command(dpkg/apt-get) using psudo-terminal and debwrap gets from
> STDOUT of psudo-terminal, puts to STDIN of psudo-terminal, so, if
> debwrap gets a question line from {pre,post}-inst of each package,
> debwrap puts the corresponding answer.

Isn't debconf going to make this obsolete before it is even used? :)

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