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Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation



goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
> The second thing is that such information should be collected during
> install and be displayed in one chunk afterwards (in a series of
> debconf requesters?).

Actually, debconf allows such things to be shown _before_ install.

> The third thing isn't relevant to the section of ploicy but just as
> anoying. When a configfile gets updated dpkg will stop and ask the
> user before it continues. Maybe those requests could be collected as
> well and be handled seperatly. Those requestst would need the conffile
> and the restart command needed. They would not need to rerun the
> postinst again or something similar expensive.

dpkg --force-confold

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