R: Validating user input with debconf
Hi,
sorry for top posting, I'm on mobile.
can you please try to look at
virtualbox-ext-pack and see if it fits your needs?
It is a package that downloads stuff from the internet after showing you a license and asking to accept it.
cheers,
G.
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Il lun 10 ago 2015 01:15 CEST, Yurkao ha scritto:
>Hello mentors
>
>I have the following question: I want to validate user input while configuring the package and if user provides incorrect input - reprompt question until valid value is provided.
>Is it a good practice to do that with debconf?
>If it is - where should I do this ?
>In config script?
>Postinst?
>
>The naive asnwer is: prompt user in config script until user provides valid input.
>
>This would work fine, but on the other hand the debconf frontend could be non interactive. In this case, if wrong answer was preseeded, looping really doesn't help - because debconf just spinning in the loop without getting any input from user.
>
>Any ideas/suggestions for correct solution?
>
>
>Best regards,
>Yurii Oleynikov
>
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