Previously Marco d'Itri wrote: > What about adding a --dont-configure flag to dpkg until we will have > all other things needed? That should be trivial. You can't force dpkg to tell scripts not to prompt.. Doing that is broken. > FQDNs > IP addresses (IPv4 and/or IPv6) > email addresses What's wrong with using strings for that? Everywhere you use them a string can also be used. Then just have the config-module from the package validate the IP address. That way you can also enforce other rules, like correct gateways (ever seen someone using a gateway in another subnet by misktake? `but, I did enter a gateway! really!') Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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