Re: It's Huntin' Season

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Manoj Srivastava writes:
 > >>"Jeff" == Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com> writes:
 > 
 >  Jeff> I would like to see support for automatic handling of the
 >  Jeff> disposition questions, preferably by parsing "/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg",
 >  Jeff> so that I can put my preferences in just one place,
 > 
 > 	Hmm. I'll see about supporting a config file (though this is
 >  rapidly turning from a quick and dirty script to a full fledged
 >  package), but I am not going to parse all the stuff dpkg conf can
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am not interested in "all the stuff" that dpkg conf can have,
just the very relevant conf* options, ie, "force-confold",
"force-confnew" and "force-confdef".

 >  have in there, and I definitely do not want to track the changes. 
 > 
 > 	I have now put in a conf file and a man page. Two
                            ^^^^^^^^^

Great, so now we can have an option in this new conf file that
looks something like this,

    "import-the-relevant-conf-options-from-dpkg.cfg"

 >  configuration options so far and counting.
 > 
 > 	manoj

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Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>