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Re: Debconf in non-interactive mode



Hi,

On Sonntag, 21. November 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> If both those tests are true, you can be pretty sure that a user can be
> prompted (on stderr, blah) and you can get a response on stdin.  

Don't do this, or rather: do it right: "Prompting must be done by 
communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the 
Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher. "

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt


cheers,
	Holger

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