Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net>]

>>>>> Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> writes:
>>>>> On 07/26/2011 12:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:

 >> Well, isn't it simply about not configuring a few packages?

 > no; see openssh-server.postinst, in the discussed use-case you want
 > to run everything in there except the creation of the host keys.

 > the only left problem to work out is to define a way so that upon
 > start, if enabled (which would be by default to yes upon boot), those
 > packages that have not configured their "private" stuff yet, to run
 > their postinsts again (to execute only those commands that create it,
 > see my other mail before).

	Given how a usual .postinst script is written, its repeated
	execution isn't expected to do any harm.

	AIUI, the .postinst scripts may be re-executed with
	dpkg-reconfigure(8).  The --all option may be handy, as well as
	the --frontend=noninteractive and --unseen-only ones.

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