On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 01:23:07PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > Nice solution...I was looking into creating a dummy package of just the > config files we needed to install a configuration specific to our setup, > but this might work as well. FYI, you can't install two different packages containing the same file(s). The packages would conflict and apt/dpkg would refuse to install them. > Question: apt-get is a noticebly interactive program...what kind of > problems does one run into when running it from a cronjob or the like? Running apt-get with --assume-yes or --trivial-only parameter should prevent any questions apt might have. Configuring debconf to use some non-interactive frontend should avoid any configuration related questions. I haven't yet tried those in practice though :-/ -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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