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RE: QQ about apt.



(sigh) Thank you both...

This still stinks of "there's gotta be a way".. anyone?
S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:roberto@familiasanchez.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:59 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: QQ about apt.


On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:24:37PM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> 
> I'm no expert Scott, but I reckon there's probably away to instruct
> dpkg to bypass the pre-inst(allation) scripts. 
<snip>

This could be dangerous, as some packages generate additional files and
whatnot during post-inst.  The information gathered during pre-inst is
usually relevant there.  I am not sure if they all have sane defaults in
the absence of the pre-inst input.
-Roberto
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