howto create debian package with conf files
Hello,
I would like to create a debian package for a simple
project that I've created. The project contains only scripts, so there
is no makefile or anything like that. For the script to work I would
like to prompt for some simple questions like "what url should be
used", "what organisation does this computer belong to".
I've created a postinst script that asks these questions and writes
them in a configuration file. (and this configuration file is listed in
conffiles)
Now the problem that I have is that when I reinstall this package, or upgrade it, all the questions are asked again.
After some research I'm still not able to find a simple example or howto to do this right.
- Is it necessary to use debconf to accomplish this?
-
I thought that the postinst script was called with an argument
install/upgrade/configure and so I could ask my question only when it
was and install or configure, but this doesnt work. apperantly
upgrading a package also uses argument configure...
I've tried to look at packages like postfix, to see how they do it,
but those are to difficult for my simple scripting skills :-(
Regards,
Luke
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