Debconf web frontend

[Mourad De Clerck <mourad@aquazul.com>]

Hi,


we'd like to use a web interface to reconfigure certain packages 
remotely, and I was thinking since I'm already using Debian that the 
Debian web frontend would be worth looking at.


I'd basically like to create a couple of administration pages showing 
the status of the box, and allowing the reconfiguration of certain packages.

Now, as far as i can tell the current "web" frontend has a couple of 
limitations. I was wondering how hard it would be to make something 
decent out of it. Is someone already working on this?

If no-one is, can someone atleast give me some caveats/pointers how to 
tackle this problem? My knowledge of Perl is very limited at the moment, 
but I don't mind picking up a book for this.



Another unrelated question: we also need to be able to backup the 
configuration files easily (just backup etc, basically). Now I thought I 
didn't have to backup the debconf db in /var, is this still true?


Thanks,


Mourad DC