Re: Solution strategy: Re: use and abuse of debconf
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:38:29AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Tue 16 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > I assume that 'templates' are called such for a reason; is it possible to
> > use a common question template, but substitute, say, a filename? That
> > would make it
>
> Yes.
There doesn't currently seem to be any support for a standard template that is
used by many packages. While the shared/* namespace provides for shared
answers, each package includes its own question to ask in order to get the
answer. I am interested to know which template actually gets used in this case
(Joeyh?). A brief glance at the code gives me the impression that it's the
last template read.
What I would like is a shared-global template with a package-local answer, such
as shared/overwrite_config_file, into which can be substituted, say, a package
name and a config file. This template would presumably be included with
debconf. The question could then be asked, and the answer stored in
package/overwrite_config_file. That way, the wording, formatting, etc. would
be correct and consistent for all packages which need to ask this question
(which would become very common).
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- mdz
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