Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Its not the best to get told that you need to change /etc/foorc after
installation, which might be next day, before the install. Its to easy
to forget. Sometimes information should be shown after installation.
But you give me an idea that is probably hard to do but would be
great. What if debconf had a postpone button. When something comes up
you want to be asked after the installation again (like the
information to edit /etc/foorc or stuff you need the documentation
for) you hit postpone and the question will pop up after install again.
> > 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
Thats not the same as asking the usual questions. Maybe I want to use
the new conffile for some package maybe I want to see a diff.
MfG
Goswin
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