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Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password



Il giorno gio, 18/08/2005 alle 21.00 +0200, martin f krafft ha scritto:
> Is this Zope-related? If so, why are you creating an instance from
> debconf? I thought our approach would be to provide the framework
> but expect the admin to run mkzopeinstance to configure it.

We are talking about pre-packaged zope instances (dh_installzopeinstance
from zope-debhelper package in experimental), something like "apt-get
install plone-site" to have a ready-to-run instance for plone hacking.

> Alternatively, just set the password to some random string and don't
> display it, then document the need to use zpasswd.py before things
> will work in README.Debian.

This is what I will probably do.

> I am a big fan of not using debconf/postinst for any of this.

I'm still confused about debconf's 'note', mainly because
debconf-devel(7) clearly says that debconf will do everything to display
that message to the user, but I'm not able to obtain this behaviour.

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