Re: Debconf preloading, standard method?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Joey Hess]
>> Yes, I considered this; however this means you'll have to copy all
>> of standard input into a temporary backend, unless you can
>> guarantee dpkg-preconfigure/etc are only going to run once.
>> Otherwise the second time it runs it will get nothing from standard
>> input.
> 
> That shouldn't be a problem, if the config script runs when the
> package is preconfigured and then writes values back to a drdriver
> higher on the stack than the pipe. I'd have to try it to be sure
> though.

It will be a problem when you install several packages at the same
time.